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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 6 of 16.
- Airfield Operations Specialists
- Anesthesiologist Assistants
- Art Therapists
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
- Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Aviation Inspectors
- Biofuels Production Managers
- Business Intelligence Analysts
- Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Computer Systems Analysts
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Construction and Building Inspectors
- Coroners
- Cost Estimators
- Digital Forensics Analysts
- Electrical and Electronics Drafters
- Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers
- Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters
- Facilities Managers
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
- Historians
- History Teachers, Postsecondary
- Information Technology Project Managers
- Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
- Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists
- Midwives
- Nannies
- News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
- Optometrists
- Orthoptists
- Photonics Engineers
- Physical Therapists
- Precision Agriculture Technicians
- Producers and Directors
- Project Management Specialists
- Public Relations Specialists
- Quality Control Analysts
- Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
- Set and Exhibit Designers
- Ship Engineers
- Signal and Track Switch Repairers
- Social Science Research Assistants
- Software Developers
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
- Sound Engineering Technicians
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool
- Telecommunications Engineering Specialists
- Web and Digital Interface Designers
- Wind Energy Development Managers
- Wind Energy Engineers
- Acupuncturists
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.