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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 12 of 16.
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
- Concierges
- Correspondence Clerks
- Crane and Tower Operators
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Data Entry Keyers
- Dental Hygienists
- Embalmers
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- File Clerks
- Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
- First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
- Flight Attendants
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Forest and Conservation Workers
- Furniture Finishers
- Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers
- Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
- Glaziers
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
- Helpers--Electricians
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- Insurance Sales Agents
- Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
- Library Assistants, Clerical
- Log Graders and Scalers
- Logging Equipment Operators
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Massage Therapists
- Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
- Motion Picture Projectionists
- Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Order Clerks
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Parts Salespersons
- Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
- Personal Care Aides
- Physical Therapist Aides
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
- Sailors and Marine Oilers
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
- Segmental Pavers
- Self-Enrichment Teachers
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory 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.