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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 4 of 16.
- Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary
- Photonics Engineers
- Physical Therapists
- Physics Teachers, Postsecondary
- Podiatrists
- Political Scientists
- Producers and Directors
- Prosthodontists
- Registered Nurses
- Regulatory Affairs Specialists
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
- Respiratory Therapists
- Robotics Engineers
- Sales Engineers
- Security Management Specialists
- Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
- Sociologists
- Soil and Plant Scientists
- Solar Energy Systems Engineers
- Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool
- Statisticians
- Transportation Engineers
- Transportation Planners
- Treasurers and Controllers
- Urban and Regional Planners
- Validation Engineers
- Water Resource Specialists
- Water/Wastewater Engineers
- Web Administrators
- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
- Wind Energy Development Managers
- Wind Energy Engineers
- Advertising and Promotions Managers
- Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians
- Agricultural Engineers
- Architectural and Engineering Managers
- Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary
- Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Art Therapists
- Athletic Trainers
- Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
- Biofuels Production Managers
- Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Broadcast Technicians
- Budget Analysts
- Business Intelligence Analysts
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
- Chiropractors
- Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Civil Engineers
- Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
- Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Construction and Building Inspectors
- Credit Analysts
- Credit Counselors
- Cytogenetic Technologists
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.