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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 5 of 16.
- Data Warehousing Specialists
- Database Administrators
- Database Architects
- Directors, Religious Activities and Education
- Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
- Editors
- Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
- Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary
- Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
- Exercise Physiologists
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- Fashion Designers
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Fundraisers
- General and Operations Managers
- Geodetic Surveyors
- Geography Teachers, Postsecondary
- History Teachers, Postsecondary
- Human Resources Specialists
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Industrial Ecologists
- Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Information Security Analysts
- Instructional Coordinators
- Landscape Architects
- Logistics Engineers
- Loss Prevention Managers
- Marketing Managers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Mechanical Engineers
- Media Technical Directors/Managers
- Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators
- Nuclear Medicine Technologists
- Nuclear Monitoring Technicians
- Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
- Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
- Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
- Orthoptists
- Pharmacists
- Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
- Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Private Detectives and Investigators
- Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Public Relations Managers
- Public Relations Specialists
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
- Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
- Range Managers
- Real Estate Brokers
- Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Recreational Therapists
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.