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Proof Reader

OFO Code: 441302

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
441302
Occupation
Proof Reader
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
CLERICAL SUPPORT WORKERS
Unit group
4413 · Coding, Proof-reading and Related Clerks

Official description
Coding, proof-reading, and related clerks convert information into codes, verify and correct proofs, and perform a number of miscellaneous clerical duties.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Permissions Clerk, Copyright Editor

  • Addressing circulars and envelopes by hand
  • Sorting documents for filing or to collate sets of pages
  • Converting information into codes and classifying information by codes for data-processing purposes
  • Sorting forms and marking them with identification numbers
  • Comparing proofs of texts and related material prepared for printing with original material, correcting errors and marking texts for printer according to the established rules
  • Copyright Clerk
  • Processes third party (outgoing) copyright permissions and responds to incoming copyright permissions queries.

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.

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3. Salary evidence

No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.

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5. Qualification

Qualification evidence pending.

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7. Industry, sector and provincial context

National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

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9. Decision tools

10. Sources for this page

  • DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
    Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
  • DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
    The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
  • Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
    Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
  • QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
    Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
  • Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
    Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
  • SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
    PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.
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