Occupation Atlasjudge
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/07bd65d7-c13f-443a-bdf6-88903f3822be
judge
Judges preside over, review and handle court cases, hearings, appeals and trials. They ensure that court procedures conform to conventional legal processes and review evidence and juries. Judges preside over cases involving such areas as crime, family issues, civil law, small claims and juvenile offenses.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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
ECSEnterprising · Conventional · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising5.27
- C Conventional4.11
- S Social3.96
- I Investigative3.81
- R Realistic2.33
- A Artistic2.19
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 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates (23-1023.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (11)
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.
- civil law
- civil process order
- court procedures
- hear legal arguments
- interpret law
- legal terminology
- maintain court order
- observe confidentiality
- private law
- show impartiality
- supervise court hearings
Optional (30)
- advise on legal decisions
- analyse legal evidence
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- authenticate documents
- communicate with jury
- compile legal documents
- contract law
- correctional procedures
- criminal law
- criminology
- ensure sentence execution
- facilitate official agreement
- family law
- guide jury activities
- hear witness accounts
- juvenile detention
- law enforcement
- legal case management
- legal research
- make legal decisions
- moderate in negotiations
- present arguments persuasively
- present legal arguments
- procurement legislation
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- respond to enquiries
- review trial cases
- supervise legal case procedures
- support juvenile victims
- write work-related reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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