What are the main disadvantages of being a commercial clerk EFZ?

As an EFZ commercial clerk, you will carry out general administrative tasks in various companies and sectors. You will handle correspondence, organize filing independently and monitor appointments, invoices, payments, information and data. They are often the company's first point of contact for various correspondence channels.

The most important disadvantages of the EFZ commercial qualification are

1. The period of basic education is strenuous, as the combination of work and school leads to a double burden. If this is too strenuous for you and you have the necessary school qualifications, you can find out about the purely academic route at a commercial college, for example.
2. If you are interested in becoming a commercial clerk, you should have good to very good grades in German, mathematics, English and French. You should also enjoy dealing with customers, be interested in working with computers and enjoy foreign languages. Both the job and the school are demanding in these areas. There are also many economic topics.
3. The examination pressure for the final exams is high and you have to deliver across all subjects to the point.
4. Nowadays, a commercial degree enables you to enter a commercial career. However, in order to advance professionally, you need to undertake further training. This can be a professional examination for the desired field of activity, an HF degree course in business administration or a degree course at a university of applied sciences (vocational baccalaureate required) in business administration.

Graduates can work alone in a small company and take care of all the administrative work or be integrated into a department in a large company and deal with specific tasks. They work mainly on computers and have regular working hours.

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