Occupation AtlasICT help desk agent
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/aaeec9a7-dc57-4485-890c-86b3eef735f9
ICT help desk agent
ICT help desk agents provide technical assistance to computer users, answer questions or solve computer problems for clients via telephone or electronically. They provide assistance concerning the use of computer hardware and software.
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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.
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 Conventional6.02
- R Realistic4.13
- I Investigative3.77
- S Social3.31
- E Enterprising2.36
- A Artistic1.00
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 Computer User Support Specialists (15-1232.00): 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 (20)
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.
- ICT system user requirements
- assist customers
- characteristics of products
- characteristics of services
- communicate with customers
- create solutions to problems
- guarantee customer satisfaction
- identify customer's needs
- keep task records
- keep up to date on product knowledge
- manage schedule of tasks
- prioritise requests
- product comprehension
- provide ICT support
- provide customer follow-up services
- solve ICT system problems
- support ICT system users
- use ICT hardware
- use ICT ticketing system
- use customer relationship management software
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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