Occupation Atlaszoology technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ff4c28e2-66b1-4ae7-9053-fba8ec3428be
zoology technician
Zoology technicians provide technical assistance in researching and testing animal species using laboratory equipment. They aid in research concerning animals as well as their environments and ecosystems. They collect and analyse data, compile reports and maintain laboratory stock.
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Job Zone
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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
IRCInvestigative · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative6.99
- R Realistic5.43
- C Conventional3.70
- S Social2.55
- E Enterprising2.33
- A Artistic2.31
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 Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists (19-1023.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (19)
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
- animal behaviour
- animal biology
- applied zoology
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- apply scientific methods
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biology
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- collect biological data
- laboratory equipment
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- manage inventory
- perform laboratory tests
- perform scientific research
- scientific research methodology
- use laboratory equipment
- write technical reports
Optional (20)
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- animal food products
- animal welfare legislation
- chemistry
- cryopreservation
- environmental legislation
- evolutionary biology
- hazardous waste storage
- inspect animal welfare management
- keep task records
- label samples
- life sciences
- maintain freelance database
- microbiology-bacteriology
- pollution legislation
- prepare visual data
- preserve samples
- watershed development
- write research proposals
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.
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