Classified Advertising Clerk
OFO Code: 441901
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 441901
- Occupation
- Classified Advertising Clerk
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- CLERICAL SUPPORT WORKERS
- Unit group
- 4419 · Clerical Support Workers not Elsewhere Classified
Official description
This unit group covers clerical support workers not classified elsewhere in major group 4. For instance, the group includes, correspondence clerks, press clippers and publication clerks.
More official OFO detail
- Receiving customers' orders for classified advertising, writing and editing copy, calculating advertising rates and billing customers
- Reading newspapers, magazines, press releases and other publications to locate and file articles of interest to staff and clients
- Writing business and government correspondence such as replies to requests for information and assistance, damage claims, credit and billing enquiries and service complaints
- Assisting in the preparation of periodicals, advertisements, catalogues, directories and other material for publication
2. Demand status
Demand evidence not yet linked
This is an official OFO 2021 occupation. Demand status is separate evidence and is not inferred from inclusion in the OFO.
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3. Salary evidence
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned