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Critical Thinking
Needed by 809 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 1 of 16.
- Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates
- Anesthesiologists
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Physicists
- Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
- Lawyers
- Chief Executives
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Family Medicine Physicians
- Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Penetration Testers
- Psychiatrists
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Biochemists and Biophysicists
- Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
- Clinical Neuropsychologists
- Data Scientists
- Epidemiologists
- Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers
- Judicial Law Clerks
- Law Teachers, Postsecondary
- Neuropsychologists
- Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
- Pediatricians, General
- Preventive Medicine Physicians
- Security Managers
- Sports Medicine Physicians
- Survey Researchers
- Urologists
- Acute Care Nurses
- Aerospace Engineers
- Air Traffic Controllers
- Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Anthropologists and Archeologists
- Astronomers
- Automotive Engineers
- Business Continuity Planners
- Chemical Engineers
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Child, Family, and School Social Workers
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Computer Network Architects
- Coroners
- Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
- Dentists, General
- Dermatologists
- Detectives and Criminal Investigators
- Economists
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Financial Examiners
- Financial Quantitative Analysts
- Fundraising Managers
- Historians
- Hospitalists
- Hydrologists
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Information Technology Project Managers
- Management Analysts
- Marine Engineers and Naval Architects
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.