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Complex Problem Solving
Needed by 648 occupations in O*NET. O*NET rates it for 910 occupations and it counts as needed where rated 3 (important) or more of 5.
Occupations that list it
Essential first, then O*NET-rated by importance, then optional. 910 in all, page 1 of 16.
- Chief Executives
- Physicists
- Epidemiologists
- Preventive Medicine Physicians
- Treasurers and Controllers
- Automotive Engineers
- Biochemists and Biophysicists
- Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
- Business Continuity Planners
- Emergency Management Directors
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Health Informatics Specialists
- Hospitalists
- Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates
- Lawyers
- Logistics Engineers
- Marine Engineers and Naval Architects
- Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers
- Neurologists
- Neuropsychologists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Operations Research Analysts
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Actuaries
- Acute Care Nurses
- Aerospace Engineers
- Air Traffic Controllers
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Anesthesiologists
- Animal Scientists
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Architectural and Engineering Managers
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Biostatisticians
- Chemical Engineers
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Clinical Neuropsychologists
- Computer and Information Research Scientists
- Construction Managers
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
- Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar
- Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
- Family Medicine Physicians
- Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Genetic Counselors
- Geneticists
- Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Management Analysts
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Materials Engineers
- Materials Scientists
- Mathematicians
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists
- Nuclear Engineers
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to an occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role. O*NET importance says how much a skill matters in an occupation, from 1 to 5; it is not a proficiency level.
Often appears with
Skills most often needed alongside it, with how many occupations need both.
Importance by Job Zone
Mean O*NET importance across the occupations rated at each Job Zone.
Where it shows up
O*NET occupations that rate it important (3 or more), by occupation group.
This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.