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O*NET detailed work activityEnter information into databases or software programs
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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 Process digital or online data, under the O*NET work activity group Working with Computers. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (30 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 1 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Enter customers' transactions into computers to record transactions and issue computer-generated receipts.
- Scan labels on letters or parcels to confirm receipt.
- Enter, update, and retrieve information from teletype networks and computerized data systems regarding such things as wanted persons, stolen property, vehicle registration, and stolen vehicles.
- Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.
- Organize or work with detailed office or warehouse records, using computers to enter, access, search or retrieve data.
- Enter prescription information into computer databases.
- Compare data with source documents, or re-enter data in verification format to detect errors.
- Locate and record data on sales of comparable property using specialized software, internet searches, or personal records.
- Enter text into computer keyboard and select the size and style of type, column width, and appropriate spacing for printed materials.
- Read electric, gas, water, or steam consumption meters and enter data in route books or hand-held computers.
- Create, maintain, and enter information into databases.
- Enter and update patrons' records on computers.
- Read source documents such as canceled checks, sales reports, or bills, and enter data in specific data fields or onto tapes or disks for subsequent entry, using keyboards or scanners.
- Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
- Upload into office computers all information collected on hand-held computers during meter rounds, or return route books or hand-held computers to business offices so that data can be compiled.
- Use data entry devices, such as optical scanners, to input data into computers for revision or editing.
- Enter information about museum collections into computer databases.
- File data and related information, and maintain and update databases.
- Enter data, such as coordinates of images and color specifications, into system to retouch and make color corrections.
- Input data, such as file numbers, new or updated information, or document information codes into computer systems to support document and information retrieval.
- Enter data into computers for use in analyses or reports.
- Enter digitized data into electronic prepress system computer memory, using scanner, camera, keyboard, or mouse.
- Establish new computer accounts.
- Transcribe data to worksheets, and enter data into computer for use in preparing documents and adjusting accounts.
- Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system.
- Update directory information.
- Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
- Enter shipping information into a computer by hand or by a hand-held scanner that reads bar codes on goods.
- Enter insurance- and claims-related information into database systems.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Compile information about new accounts, enter account information into computers, and file related forms or other documents.
- Enter into record-keeping systems appropriate data needed to create new title records or to update existing ones.
- Give buyers virtual tours of properties in which they are interested, using computers.
- Enter information into computerized court calendar, filing, or case management systems.