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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 9 of 16.
- Insurance Underwriters
- Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Mechanical Door Repairers
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- Medical Appliance Technicians
- Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
- Millwrights
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Motorcycle Mechanics
- Music Directors and Composers
- Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Non-Destructive Testing Specialists
- Nuclear Medicine Technologists
- Nuclear Monitoring Technicians
- Occupational Therapy Aides
- Patternmakers, Wood
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Photographers
- Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators
- Photonics Technicians
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers
- Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
- Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Psychiatric Aides
- Radiation Therapists
- Real Estate Brokers
- Real Estate Sales Agents
- Recreation Workers
- Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
- Rehabilitation Counselors
- Residential Advisors
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
- Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
- Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
- Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Solar Energy Installation Managers
- Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors
- Spa Managers
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Surveyors
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
- Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
- Transportation Inspectors
- Travel Guides
- Tree Trimmers and Pruners
- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
- Writers and Authors
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Animal Breeders
- Animal Trainers
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property
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.