General Office Worker Job

General office support workers prepare correspondence, reports, statements and other material, operate office equipment, answer telephones, verify, record and process forms and documents such as contracts and requisitions and perform general clerical duties according to established procedures. They are employed in offices throughout the public and private sectors.

Type and proofread correspondence, forms and other documents
Receive and forward telephone or electronic enquiries
Work on reports from manual or electronic files, inventories and databases
Sort, process and verify applications, receipts and other documents
Process incoming and outgoing mail manually or electronically
Send and receive messages
Perform basic bookkeeping tasks
Prepare and format page presentation
Compile data, statistics and other information
Prepare invoices and bank deposits
Provide general information to clients and the public
Order office supplies and maintain inventory
Perform data entry
Label, file and retrieve documents
Locate and remove files requested
Organize and schedule office work
Prepare and monitor contracts and budgets
Store, update and retrieve financial data