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European Vocational Training Centre Bitburg

Office clerk (m/f)

Areas of Application

In principle, Office Clerks can work in all enterprises of trade, of industry, of craft, of the service sector as well as in independent professions. In the European Vocational Training Centre Bitburg, the place of learning for Office Clerks is the practice firm "Travel Shopping & More GmbH ".
As a member of the German association of practice firms, the company has a product range encompassing travel of all kinds as well as a broad selection of additional products involving all aspects of travel and is able to establish business contacts to more than 600 other practice firms all over Germany and even more than 4000 practice firms worldwide at present.
Particularly the European market of practice firms plays a major role here, as documented not least of all by the regular participation in international practice firm trade fairs.
Taking action on the basis of personal responsibility and the methodical approach of the trainees characterize to a high degree the action-oriented methodology of the practice firm as a place of learning.

Vocational Skills

Office Clerks deal above all with the costing department, with accountancy, wage and salary accounting, statistics as well as with general administrative tasks. With the help of EDP they settle the incidental correspondence, deal with questions of taxes and stock and sale figures. Within the framework of the processing of orders they establish invoices, monitor incoming payments and institute necessary dunning procedures. If they work in the administration of inventory, they check and stock incoming goods, control stocks, establish statistics and monitor storage costs. Their activities could also involve tasks in the distribution, purchase and sales department. In order to be able to complete their miscellaneous tasks efficiently, Office Clerks have to be familiar with the current hardware and software.

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