Occupation Atlasbiotechnical technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0da75680-fbf9-44d8-802a-ac12eb425a34
biotechnical technician
Biotechnical technicians perform technological work in assistance of scientists. They work in laboratory settings where they help scientists to research, develop and test forms of biotechnology. They set up lab equipment, prepare scientific tests and gather scientific data.
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Job Zone
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- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CRIConventional · Realistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.62
- R Realistic5.60
- I Investigative5.36
- S Social1.97
- E Enterprising1.31
- A Artistic1.20
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Biological Technicians (19-4021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (17)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- analyse scientific data
- apply scientific methods
- biology
- collect biological data
- contact scientists
- cryopreservation
- gather experimental data
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- maintain laboratory equipment
- perform laboratory tests
- perform scientific research
- perform stem cell transplantation
- run laboratory simulations
- solid phase microextraction
- stem cells
Optional (26)
- advise on crop diseases
- advise on pest infestation prevention
- analyse test data
- animal species
- chemical processes
- collect reproductive cells
- crop production principles
- develop vaccines
- environmental engineering
- food science
- genomics
- measure pollution
- medical devices
- medical laboratory technology
- medical studies
- medicines
- multidisciplinary research
- pest control in plants
- pests and diseases
- plant species
- pollution prevention
- research improvement of crop yields
- sustainable agricultural production principles
- undertake research in medical genetics
- use technology for forensics
- work with chemicals
O*NET equivalents
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