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Typist job description

Typist job description

The work load of a typist has changed. No longer as heavy as it was twenty years ago before computers came along, the main role of a typist is to produce letters, reports and other important documents.

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Secretary

Secretary job description

Reliability is the name of the game when you're a secretary. Whether you are secretary to a single boss or to a team, you'll be indispensable.

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Sales support

Sales support job description

If you work in sales support it's your job to undertake administration and other office duties that leave the sales team free to focus on the busy business of selling.

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Receptionist

Receptionist job description

Never has a smiling face and good manners been more important than in the world of the receptionists. Expected to be incredibly organised as well as friendly, find out more about their job.

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Personal assistant

Personal assistant job description

Behind every great manager, director or CEO you’ll normally find a super-efficient personal assistant planning their life and making it look effortless. Take a look behind closed doors and see what life as a PA is like...

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Office junior

Office junior job description

Your role as office junior is to help ensure the smooth running of the office. Looking for variety in your career? There's not much your job won't cover and no two days will ever be the same.

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Clerk job description

Clerk job description

Clerks are known by lots of different names - clerical workers or clerical assistants are just a couple of them. Whatever your title, you'll help manage the more routine administration tasks within an organisation or department.

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Administrator job description

Are you always ‘organised one’ in your friendship circle or at work? Are you always sorting out every detail of your life? And do you find yourself secretly enjoying it? Have you ever thought about a career as a administrator?

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Electrician

Electrician job description

Electricity is something we all take for granted in our daily lives... until it stops working.There's a huge deficit of qualified electricians in the UK, so there's never been a better time to consider it as a career.

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Care assistant job description

Care assistant job description

It’s a tough job and the starting pay is nothing to write home about yet, for many, being a care assistant is the most rewarding job going.

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Sales trainee job description

Sales trainee job description

As a trainee sales professional, you'll find many opportunities to gain professional training, recognised qualifications and skills you can readily transfer from one industry to another.

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Retail sales job description

Retail sales job description

You could be employed in retail sales at every level from sales assistant to area manager, and your level will decide the nature of tasks you will be carrying out.

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Graduate trainee job description

Graduate trainee recruitment job description

As a graduate or trainee in recruitment, you'll be learning how to be the intermediary between organisations wishing to recruit (the client) and the candidate. It's primarily a sales role, and offers great rewards for impressive results.

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Retail trainee job description

Retail trainee job description

If you don’t know how to break into retail management jobs, it can seem like a rather confusing career step. So how do you learn the skills and eventually land the job? Become a retail trainee of course.

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Customer service assistant

Customer service assistant job description

Are you friendly, patient and quick-thinking? These are all great skills to have if you want a customer service assistant job.

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Infantry soldier

Infantry soldier job description

The Army is incredibly well respected in the UK and as a soldier you could be putting your life on the line to serve 'Queen and Country'.

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Graduate and trainee job description

Trainee and graduate job description

With so many options to choose from out there, we know it can be hard to know where to start. Have you ever considered working for the public sector?

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Fire fighter

Fire fighter job description

It's a job that instantly makes you sound cool, but being a fire fighter is more than wearing the iconic uniform and rescuing people from burning buildings. Want to know more? Course you do!

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Council worker job description

Council worker job description

What do these three jobs have in common? Refuse collector, social worker and teacher? They all have completely different roles in separate working environments, but believe it or not, they all fall under the same category of council worker.

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Community support officer

Community support officer job description

If you’d like to be paid for helping out your community (hey, it’s not a crime, we all need to pay the bills), it’s time to consider a career as a community support officer.

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