Occupation Atlasbiology technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/31cc4199-703c-4f8a-9b46-a2070a6d35df
biology technician
Biology technicians provide technical assistance in researching and analysing the relationship between living organisms and their environment. They use laboratory equipment to examine organic substances such as bodily fluids, medicines, plants and food. They collect and analyse data for experiments, compile reports and maintain laboratory stock.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 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, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (22)
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
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- apply scientific methods
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biology
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- collect biological data
- collect samples for analysis
- computational biology
- cryopreservation
- laboratory equipment
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- maintain laboratory equipment
- manage inventory
- perform laboratory tests
- perform scientific research
- perform stem cell transplantation
- scientific research methodology
- stem cells
- use laboratory equipment
- write technical reports
Optional (29)
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- animal welfare legislation
- applied zoology
- biosecurity
- botany
- chemistry
- collect reproductive cells
- ecology
- environmental legislation
- evolutionary biology
- genomics
- hazardous waste storage
- keep task records
- label samples
- maintain freelance database
- microbiology-bacteriology
- molecular biology
- monitor the welfare of animals
- oceanography
- pathology
- perform fertility laboratory procedures
- perform field research
- pharmacology
- pollution prevention
- prepare visual data
- preserve samples
- virology
- write research proposals
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
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