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O*NET detailed work activityCompile data or documentation
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Forms, records, data entry, scheduling and routine paperwork are where AI saves the most time. It drafts, sorts, extracts and reformats while you verify.
Part of Compile records, documentation, or other data, under the O*NET work activity group Processing Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (35 AI-ready, 8 AI-assist, 5 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Post or attach information to claim file.
- Compile information about new accounts, enter account information into computers, and file related forms or other documents.
- Document route of specimens from collection to laboratory analysis and diagnosis.
- Compile, sort, and verify the accuracy of data before it is entered.
- Compile, record, and evaluate personal and financial data to verify completeness and accuracy, and to determine eligibility status.
- Keep records pertaining to menus, finances, and other business-related issues.
- Gather materials to be filed from departments or employees.
- Sort or classify information according to guidelines, such as content, purpose, user criteria, or chronological, alphabetical, or numerical order.
- Electronically sort and compile text and numerical data, retrieving, updating, and merging documents as required.
- Compile reports, charts, or graphs that describe and interpret findings of analyses.
- Prepare and process papers for use in scanning, microfilming, and microfiche.
- Compile, record, and code results or data from interview or survey, using computer or specified form.
- Assemble and compile documents for loan closings, such as title abstracts, insurance forms, loan forms, and tax receipts.
- Gather, register, and arrange the material to be typed, following instructions.
- Compile statistics from source materials, such as production or sales records, quality-control or test records, time sheets, or survey sheets.
- Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
- Gather personnel records from other departments or employees.
- Locate and attach appropriate files to incoming correspondence requiring replies.
- Collate pages of reports and other documents.
- Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed.
- Compile data from records to prepare periodic reports.
- Compile statistical reports, statements, and summaries related to pay and benefits accounts, and submit them to appropriate departments.
- Organize paperwork, such as survey forms or reports, for distribution or analysis.
- Assemble and issue required documentation, such as tickets, travel insurance policies, or itineraries.
- Compile and prepare documentation related to production sequences, transportation, personnel schedules, or purchase, maintenance, or repair orders.
- Collect and analyze data, such as studying old records, tallying the number of outpatients entering each day or week, or participating in federal, state, or local population surveys as a Census Enumerator.
- Compile statistical, financial, accounting, or auditing reports and tables pertaining to such matters as cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, and profits and losses.
- Conduct "head counts" to help predict the outcome of upcoming votes.
- Compile and prepare reports and documents pertaining to personnel activities.
- Compile budget data and documents, based on estimated revenues and expenses and previous budgets.
- Compile, transcribe, and distribute minutes of meetings.
- Compile data pertinent to manufacture of special products for customers.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Develop and maintain log of surveillance observations.
- Sort, assemble, and proof completed work.
- Compile and analyze credit information gathered by investigation.
- Obtain maps or drawings delineating properties from company title plants, county surveyors, or assessors' offices.
- Record and evaluate patient and family health and food history, including symptoms, environmental toxic exposure, allergies, medication factors, and preventive health-care measures.
- Create and maintain a database of completed appraisals.
- Compile and record medical charts, reports, or correspondence, using typewriter or personal computer.
- Compile, copy, sort, and file records of office activities, business transactions, and other activities.
- Gather records pertinent to specific problems, review them for completeness and accuracy, and attach records to correspondence as necessary.
- Prepare bank deposits by compiling data from cashiers, verifying and balancing receipts, and sending cash, checks, or other forms of payment to banks.
- Research, compile, and prepare reports, manuals, correspondence, or other information required by management or governmental agencies.
- Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees, and boards of directors.
- Calculate and compile order-related statistics, and prepare reports for management.
- Work with technical material, preparing statistical reports, planning and typing statistical tables, and combining and rearranging material from different sources.
- Review correspondence for format and typographical accuracy, assemble the information into a prescribed form with the correct number of copies, and submit it to an authorized official for signature.
- Compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.