Skills & competences

Description

Personnel clerks maintain and update personnel records such as information on transfers and promotions, performance evaluations, employee leave taken and accumulated, salaries, qualifications and training.
Tasks include -
(a) updating information on employment history, salaries, performance evaluations, qualifications and training, and leave taken and accumulated;
(b) initiating records for newly appointed workers and checking records for completeness;
(c) processing applications for employment and promotions and advising applicants of results;
(d) receiving and answering inquiries about employment entitlements and conditions;
(e) sending out job applications and announcements of job openings and job examinations;
(f) maintaining and updating manual and computerized filing and registration systems, and compiling and preparing reports and documents relating to personnel activities;
(g) storing and retrieving personnel records and files on request.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Human resource assistant
- Human resource clerk