Occupation Atlasagricultural technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1f8314c2-01bd-4af4-babc-04d7034591b8
agricultural technician
Agricultural technicians collect and conduct experiments and tests on agriculture and aquaculture specimens. They provide support to scientists and farmers and also analyse and report on conditions in the collected specimens' environments.
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
RICRealistic · Investigative · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.82
- I Investigative4.57
- C Conventional4.26
- E Enterprising1.99
- S Social1.46
- 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 Agricultural Technicians (19-4012.00): 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 (10)
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 environmental data
- analyse scientific data
- analyse test data
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- conduct field work
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- gather experimental data
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- write work-related reports
Optional (33)
- advise on crop diseases
- advise on fertiliser and herbicide
- aeroponics
- agricultural chemicals
- agricultural equipment
- agricultural raw materials, seeds and animal feed products
- aquaculture industry
- aquaculture reproduction
- assess crop damage
- biology
- chemistry
- collect weather-related data
- culture aquaculture hatchery stocks
- evaluate vineyard problems
- evaluate vineyard quality
- horticulture principles
- hydroponics
- inspect agricultural fields
- integrated food-energy systems
- irrigate soil
- maintain aquaculture containers
- maintain tanks for viticulture
- maintain waterbased aquaculture facilities
- manage crop production
- monitor crops
- monitor fisheries
- plant harvest methods
- prevent crop disorders
- provide advice to farmers
- research improvement of crop yields
- soil science
- sustainable agricultural production principles
- viticulture
O*NET equivalents
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