Even small organisations create enormous amounts of documents, communications and data. Managing these records is vital for several reasons. These include tracing why decisions were made to establish a history of the company, and often to fulfil legal requirements.

In smaller organisations this work will be taken on by the admin staff. In large organisations, dedicated professionals will work on records management. Often they will have academic qualifications in areas such as data management, librarian studies or records management.

It will attract very organised people, with keen attention to detail. But as doing the job well is dependent on everyone else in the business being organised, you will need to be a good communicator so that people know what policies to follow.