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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 11 of 16.
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Medical Records Specialists
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
- Motorboat Operators
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Online Merchants
- Ophthalmic Medical Technologists
- Opticians, Dispensing
- Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics
- Paralegals and Legal Assistants
- Park Naturalists
- Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
- Phlebotomists
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Police Identification and Records Officers
- Prepress Technicians and Workers
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
- Print Binding and Finishing Workers
- Printing Press Operators
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
- Psychiatric Technicians
- Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Recycling Coordinators
- Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
- Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
- Riggers
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Roof Bolters, Mining
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
- Skincare Specialists
- Solar Photovoltaic Installers
- Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
- Special Effects Artists and Animators
- Subway and Streetcar Operators
- Surgical Technologists
- Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders
- Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
- Tile and Stone Setters
- Tool and Die Makers
- Travel Agents
- Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials
- Upholsterers
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Wellhead Pumpers
- Agricultural Technicians
- Animal Control Workers
- Automotive Body and Related Repairers
- Baggage Porters and Bellhops
- Bailiffs
- Bicycle Repairers
- Bill and Account Collectors
- Biofuels Processing Technicians
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Bridge and Lock Tenders
- Brokerage Clerks
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.