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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 2 of 16.
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
- Orthodontists
- Pediatricians, General
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
- Physicians, Pathologists
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
- Radiologists
- School Psychologists
- Security Managers
- Sports Medicine Physicians
- Transportation Planners
- Urologists
- Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
- Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
- Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
- Agricultural Engineers
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Atmospheric and Space Scientists
- Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Child, Family, and School Social Workers
- Chiropractors
- Civil Engineers
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Coaches and Scouts
- Computer Hardware Engineers
- Computer Network Architects
- Critical Care Nurses
- Database Administrators
- Database Architects
- Dentists, General
- Detectives and Criminal Investigators
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Electrical Engineers
- Environmental Engineers
- Environmental Restoration Planners
- Exercise Physiologists
- Financial Examiners
- Financial Quantitative Analysts
- Food Scientists and Technologists
- Foresters
- Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
- Geography Teachers, Postsecondary
- Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
- Healthcare Social Workers
- Hydrologists
- Industrial Engineers
- Instructional Coordinators
- Landscape Architects
- Logistics Analysts
- Loss Prevention Managers
- Marketing Managers
- Mechatronics Engineers
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
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.