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Elementary Administration Occupations

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of elementary clerical and administrative tasks within offices.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£8,381
£16,875
£30,515

New workers start around £8,381. Normal pay is £16,875 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £30,515.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 55,762 vacancies for this type of job

4.31%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Takes messages and distributes internal and external correspondence to office staff.

  • Compiles, sorts and files correspondence.

  • Records and retrieves information.

  • Copies, duplicates or destroys documents and other records.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Housekeeping

  • Stock Control

  • Food Safety And Sanitation

  • Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG)

  • Food Services

  • Auditing

  • Administrative Support

  • Data Entry

  • Cash Handling

  • Maid Services

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Customer Service

  • Cleanliness

  • Computer Literacy

  • Operations

  • Loading And Unloading

  • Collections

  • Detail Oriented

  • Management

  • Professionalism

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.