Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

typisttoforeign language correspondence clerk

A typist already meets 33% of what the foreign language correspondence clerk role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From typist
33%
Overlap1
To foreign language correspondence clerk
9 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
59.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

33%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

59.3/ 100

1 Share of the foreign language correspondence clerk role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the typist profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A foreign language correspondence clerk role treats 3 of its required skills as things a typist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply grammar and spelling rules
  • company policies
  • ensure proper document management

What stands in the way is 7 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A foreign language correspondence clerk role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a typist background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held liaise with typists communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held draft corporate emails communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held perform office routine activities management skills
  • already held manage digital documents working with computers
  • already held ensure proper document management information skills
  • already held use word processing software working with computers

All 9 carried skills, including the 3 the foreign language correspondence clerk role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 17 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 5 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages required
  • required, not held master language rules required
  • required, not held speak different languages required
  • required, not held translate foreign language required
  • required, not held translate language concepts required
  • optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
  • optional, not held disseminate internal communications optional
  • optional, not held liaise with managers optional
  • optional, not held translate spoken language optional
02 arts and humanities 2 required
  • required, not held grammar required
  • required, not held spelling required
03 management skills 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held handle mail optional
  • optional, not held deliver correspondence optional
  • optional, not held organise business documents optional
  • optional, not held use office systems optional
04 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held file documents optional
05 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a foreign language correspondence clerk role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 9 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply grammar and spelling rules skill
  • already held company policies knowledge
  • already held ensure proper document management skill
  • already held draft corporate emails skill
  • already held liaise with typists skill
  • already held manage digital documents skill
  • already held perform office routine activities skill
  • already held use spreadsheets software skill
  • already held use word processing software skill
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held file documents optional
  • optional, not held handle mail optional
  • optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
  • optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
  • optional, not held deliver correspondence optional
  • optional, not held disseminate internal communications optional
  • optional, not held liaise with managers optional
  • optional, not held organise business documents optional
  • optional, not held translate spoken language optional
  • optional, not held use office systems optional
24 held skills the foreign language correspondence clerk role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role align content with form skill
  • not needed by the target role audio technology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role compile content skill
  • not needed by the target role content development processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role decode handwritten texts skill
  • not needed by the target role digitise documents skill
  • not needed by the target role integrate content into output media skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain customer records skill
  • not needed by the target role operate audio equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role pose questions referring to documents skill
  • not needed by the target role provide written content skill
  • not needed by the target role stenography knowledge
  • not needed by the target role transcription methods knowledge
  • not needed by the target role translate keywords into full texts skill
  • not needed by the target role type error-free documents skill
  • not needed by the target role type texts from audio sources skill
  • not needed by the target role use databases skill
  • not needed by the target role use dictionaries skill
  • not needed by the target role use free typing techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role use microsoft office skill
  • not needed by the target role use shorthand skill
  • not needed by the target role use shorthand computer program skill
  • not needed by the target role use stenotype machines skill
  • not needed by the target role write meeting reports skill
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held grammar required
  • required, not held spelling required
Index

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Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.