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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 3 of 16.
- Emergency Management Directors
- Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar
- Environmental Compliance Inspectors
- Environmental Economists
- Environmental Engineers
- Environmental Restoration Planners
- Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers
- Financial Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
- Food Scientists and Technologists
- Forensic Science Technicians
- Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists
- Foresters
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
- Fuel Cell Engineers
- Gambling Managers
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Genetic Counselors
- Geneticists
- Geographers
- Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
- Geothermal Production Managers
- Government Property Inspectors and Investigators
- Health Informatics Specialists
- Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
- Healthcare Social Workers
- Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial Engineers
- Industrial Production Managers
- Information Security Engineers
- Intelligence Analysts
- Interior Designers
- Investment Fund Managers
- Labor Relations Specialists
- Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Logisticians
- Logistics Analysts
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
- Materials Engineers
- Materials Scientists
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
- Mental Health Counselors
- Microbiologists
- Microsystems Engineers
- Midwives
- Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers
- Music Therapists
- Nanosystems Engineers
- Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Occupational Therapists
- Operations Research Analysts
- Orthodontists
- Orthotists and Prosthetists
- Petroleum Engineers
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.