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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 10 of 16.
- Athletes and Sports Competitors
- Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
- Bartenders
- Biomass Plant Technicians
- Boilermakers
- Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
- Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
- Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film
- Cargo and Freight Agents
- Carpenters
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Chemical Plant and System Operators
- Childcare Workers
- Choreographers
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria
- Cooks, Private Household
- Credit Analysts
- Demonstrators and Product Promoters
- Dental Assistants
- Dental Laboratory Technicians
- Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
- Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Driver/Sales Workers
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Endoscopy Technicians
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
- Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
- Fish and Game Wardens
- Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
- Food Service Managers
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators
- Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
- Gas Plant Operators
- Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
- Helpers--Carpenters
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Home Health Aides
- Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
- Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
- Interpreters and Translators
- Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic
- Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
- Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers
- Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
- Locomotive Engineers
- Machinists
- Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
- Medical Assistants
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.