Specialized Clerical Experience: Two years of progressively responsible typing, stenographic and/or substantive clerical work experience which demonstrated possession of, in addition to the knowledge and abilities noted under General Experience, knowledge of common office appliances and equipment and the ability to carry out procedures in clerical work systems and to perform secretarial-type tasks including, but not limited to, several of the following: Serving as telephone and walk-in receptionist; maintaining a system of files; making travel arrangements; composing correspondence; obtaining and presenting information from files; routing correspondence; reviewing out-going correspondence for format, grammar, spelling and typography; maintaining a log of pending work; etc. Obtains specialized information for the official served from technical sources outside the agency or from diverse or numerous documents and organizes the material so as to facilitate focus on most important parts; Observes need for administrative or procedural notices and instructions, prepares drafts of necessary issuances, and distributes and explains notices and instructions to appropriate staff; Devises and installs office procedures; May operate a typewriter, word processor or personal computer to type correspondence, reports and other materials; May take and transcribe dictation by shorthand, speedwriting or stenotype of correspondence, reports and other materials.