How to become a personnel or Human resource clerk
Official title: Personnel/Human resource clerk
Also called: Human resource (HR) clerk, Personnel assistant, Personnel clerk, Personnel resource clerk, Records clerk (personnel department), Staff records clerk, Staffing clerk, Associate, Performance and Rewards, Associate, Talent Attraction and Employee Experience and Relations, Associate, Talent Management and Learning and Organisation Development, Records clerk (personnel department)
Personnel/Human resource clerk provides support to human resource managers and professionals. He/she assists in the preparation of recruitment processes by scanning Curriculum Vitaes (CV) and narrowing the selection to the most suitable candidates, and schedules interviews by coordinating appointments. He/she provides administrative support in payroll and employee benefit/compensation programmes and maintains employee information database.
Main tasks
- Recording, preparing, sorting, classifying and filing information
- Keeping address and mailing lists
- Sorting, opening and sending mail
- Photocopying and faxing documents
- Preparing reports and correspondence of a routine nature
- Recording issue of equipment to staff
- Responding to telephone or electronic enquiries or forwarding to appropriate person
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Work-study diploma. Related ITE work-study diplomas: Work-Study Diploma in Human Resource Management. You are employed by a company and study at ITE at the same time. Peernovo matched these from course names.
- Polytechnic or ITE: Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Human Resource Management with Psychology (Republic Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $35,400 a year. The middle half earn $20,880 to $50,196 a year.
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a personnel or Human resource clerk?
Ways in include: Polytechnic diploma; Work-study diploma.
How much does a personnel or Human resource clerk earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $35,400 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $20,880 to $50,196.
Will AI change the work of a personnel or Human resource clerk?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026