Occupation Atlasaudiology technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/521bbfd5-c179-46e3-879b-e74bd6db367c
audiology technician
Audiology technicians create and service hearing aids and hearing protection products. They dispense, fit and provide hearing aids for those who need them.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
SCISocial · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social4.55
- C Conventional4.40
- I Investigative4.38
- R Realistic3.87
- A Artistic1.73
- E Enterprising1.73
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 Hearing Aid Specialists (29-2092.00): 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.
- advise customers on hearing aids
- health, safety and hygiene legislation
- hygiene in a health care setting
- maintain laboratory equipment
- maintain records of clients' prescriptions
- order supplies for audiology services
- perform technical tasks with great care
- produce impressions for ear moulds
- repair hearing aids
- types of audiological equipment
- use of specialised instruments in otorhinolaryngology
Optional (20)
- acoustics
- adapt hearing tests
- adjust hearing aids
- assist audiologists with screening
- communication related to hearing impairment
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- empathise with the healthcare user
- geriatrics
- hearing aids
- hearing loss
- human ear
- interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology
- listen actively
- physiology of hearing
- prepare audiologist patients for assessments
- recommend hearing aids
- refer healthcare users
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use special hearing equipment for tests
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
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 11 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
audiology equipment specialised seller
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audiologist
3 shared · 57 more of its ownproduce impressions for ear moulds, use of specialised instruments in otorhinolaryngology, hygiene in a health care setting
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optical technician
2 shared · 25 more of its ownmaintain records of clients' prescriptions, perform technical tasks with great care
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audiology equipment shop manager
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