You can’t depend on your degree alone to automatically open doors for jobs after you graduate. It would certainly unlock doors, i.e. it would make you entitled to apply for jobs that specify “must be a graduate” and the subject or class of your degree might also be significant to some employers. However good your class of degree and relevant your subject to the position that you are applying for are, it’s likely that you would be competing for the clerical job with a number of other graduates who are equally qualified.
For those with correct motivation, clerical jobs could be pathways to career success. The technical skills that you need to learn and excel are reasonably simple, and if you get placed in the right office, it could open doors for your future success. Following are some of the most general technical skills you’d need for most clerical jobs.
Nowadays, it’s impossible to work in an office if you don’t have necessary computer knowledge. At the very minimum, you must be able to turn on a computer and use its operating system as it’s virtually needed by every clerical job which you could come across. You need to possess ground knowledge of Microsoft Word, the most popular word processing program in the market. Many clerical jobs require you to be acquainted with creating spreadsheets, which emulate paper worksheets and have several statistical functions built in.
Thus, the above mentioned basic clerical skills are required if you want to stand any chance of getting a clerical job in an organization.
