Intermediate Typist-Clerk Jobs

CLASSIFICATION STANDARDS:

• Processes documents according to a predetermined but specialized procedure for such purposes as formulating property descriptions, and recording and indexing court papers, transcripts, and legal processes.
• Routinely access office equipment such as video display terminals, word processors, or personal computers to input data, perform computations or produce documents not requiring the formatting or programming of such equipment as needed.
• Estimates amounts due and collects fees.
• Checks documents for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with legal and other requirements.
• Keeps records of a nature requiring specialized knowledge, discrimination, and judgment in the selection, compilation, or computation of data to be included such as cost data records and distribution and control ledger, which can be posted without extensive knowledge of bookkeeping principles.
• Answers correspondence requiring the selection of data necessary in formulating the reply, referring unusual cases to a superior for approval.
• Maintains clerical controls where work is divided among personnel performing separate parts of an entire operation.
• Exercises minor supervision over the work of others as needed.
• Searches records and files for data where judgment and discrimination are required in selecting or abstracting material.
• Compares or segregates documents in cases where specialized knowledge of the function and more than a routine check for accuracy are involved, as in the auditing of warrants or purchase orders.
• Answers questions and provides information to the Public concerning such matters as regulations, procedures, and the preparation and filing of legal forms, applications, and permit requests; acts as a special receptionist or counter clerk.
• Typewrites abstracts of judgment, executive notices, and similar documents requiring extreme accuracy or independent judgment in selecting materials.
• Typewrites complex charts, forms, statistical and similar documents from rough drafts requiring skill in arranging tabular material, setting up forms, and extreme accuracy in typing.
• Operates office machines such as calculators incidental to the performance of other duties.

• To receive credit for the specialty program, applicants must upload a copy of their certificate of successful completion of the WERC specialty clerical training program at the time of filing. If you are unable to attach the required document, you must email the documents to [email protected], within seven (7) calendar days of filing online. Please include the exam number and the exam title.

EXAMINATION CONTENT:
This examination will consist of two (2) parts:
Part I: Multiple choice and/or simulation assessment(s), weighted 100%, measuring: :

• Learning Potential
• Responsibility
• General Problem Solving Skills
• Customer Focus

• Applicants who have taken identical components recently for other exams may have their scores automatically transferred to this examination.
• This examination contains test components that may be used in the future for new examinations and your test scores may be transferred.

• Those candidates who currently hold or have held a typing position with the requisite words per minute in the service of the County of Los Angeles; -OR-
• Those candidates who have taken and passed a Los Angeles County typing performance test at the required words per minute administered by a County Department. Applicants who have taken and passed the required typing performance test administered by Los Angeles County Department of Human Resources will have their scores transferred automatically. Applicants who have taken and passed the required typing performance test administered by another County department must attach a copy of their typing certificate to their application at the time of filing or within seven (7) calendar days from the last day of application filing.

Study guides and other test preparation resources are available to help candidates prepare for employment tests. While the guides will help you prepare for the test, we advise you to review all related materials that you deem necessary.

• An interactive, Online Test Preparation System for taking practice tests may be accessed on the Department of Human Resources website at http://hr.lacounty.gov/. Please click on "Find A Job" and then "Job Search Toolkit." Test preparation information is located under the "Employment Test Assistance" section.