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perform clerical duties

🔻 Declining ESCO reuse: cross-sector

Perform administrative tasks such as filing, typing up reports and maintaining mail correspondence.

perform clerical duties — perform administrative tasks such as filing, typing up reports and maintaining mail correspondence. McKinsey's Skill Change Index places it in the declining band (SCI 56.96/100) — a skill likely to fall in demand as AI and automation cover more of its ground by 2030. ESCO classifies it as a cross-sector (useful across many industries) skill within skills. It is currently listed by 19 occupations in our catalogue, including auditing clerk, back office specialist, business service manager, and engineering assistant.

Category: skills › performing general clerical and administrative tasks SCI: 56.96/100 Also known as: do administration work, perform administration duties, executing administration, execute administration, keep professional administration documents, organise professional administration records

Occupations that require perform clerical duties

Showing top 19 of 19 occupations · ranked by India employment volume, then AI-durability.

auditing clerk · 🤖 5.0/10
back office specialist · 🤖 5.0/10
business service manager · 🤖 5.0/10
engineering assistant · 🤖 5.0/10
fundraising assistant · 🤖 5.0/10
insurance clerk · 🤖 5.0/10
investment clerk · 🤖 5.0/10
legal administrative assistant · 🤖 5.0/10
management assistant · 🤖 5.0/10
membership administrator · 🤖 5.0/10
pipeline compliance coordinator · 🤖 5.0/10
promotion assistant · 🤖 5.0/10
sales support assistant · 🤖 5.0/10
tax compliance officer · 🤖 5.0/10
Administrative services managers · 🤖 5.6/10
foreign exchange cashier · 🤖 5.8/10
middle office analyst · 🤖 5.8/10
Brokerage clerks · 🤖 7.9/10
File clerks · 🤖 8.6/10

Frequently asked questions

What is perform clerical duties?

Perform administrative tasks such as filing, typing up reports and maintaining mail correspondence.

What category of skill is perform clerical duties?

ESCO classifies perform clerical duties under the skills category, specifically in the performing general clerical and administrative tasks subcategory.

Is perform clerical duties an AI-durable skill?

McKinsey's Skill Change Index places it in the declining band (SCI 56.96/100) — a skill likely to fall in demand as AI and automation cover more of its ground by 2030. Prioritise this skill only when it directly enables paid work today — plan for AI to absorb more of it every year.

Which jobs require perform clerical duties?

In our catalogue, 19 occupations list perform clerical duties as a required or important skill. The top occupations by employment volume include auditing clerk, back office specialist, business service manager, engineering assistant, fundraising assistant, insurance clerk.

How transferable is perform clerical duties between industries?

ESCO tags perform clerical duties as a cross-sector (useful across many industries) skill — a signal of how portable it is when you change field.

Is perform clerical duties the same as do administration work?

Yes — perform clerical duties is also known as do administration work, perform administration duties, executing administration, execute administration, keep professional administration documents, organise professional administration records, carry out office work, or maintain professional administration. They refer to the same underlying capability in the ESCO taxonomy.

How can I learn perform clerical duties?

The most reliable path is to pick a job or project that demands perform clerical duties and learn through delivery. Complement that with role-specific roadmaps and short courses. Explore the occupations below to see where this skill is used in practice.

Data: ESCO v1.2.1 (CC-BY-4.0). Durability framework informed by McKinsey Global Institute (Nov 2025). See our methodology.