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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 14 of 16.
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Aircraft Service Attendants
- Animal Caretakers
- Billing and Posting Clerks
- Cooks, Short Order
- Couriers and Messengers
- Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Etchers and Engravers
- Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
- Fence Erectors
- Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Light Truck Drivers
- Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining
- Medical Transcriptionists
- Meter Readers, Utilities
- Nursing Assistants
- Office Clerks, General
- Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
- Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
- Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
- Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers
- Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Security Guards
- Sewers, Hand
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
- Telephone Operators
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Tire Repairers and Changers
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation
- Waiters and Waitresses
- Actors
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
- Dancers
- Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers
- Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners
- Helpers--Roofers
- Library Technicians
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Parking Attendants
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.