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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 7 of 16.
- Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers
- Facilities Managers
- Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Farm and Home Management Educators
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Fish and Game Wardens
- Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators
- Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
- Health Education Specialists
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Home Appliance Repairers
- Hydroelectric Production Managers
- Insurance Sales Agents
- Insurance Underwriters
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Loan Interviewers and Clerks
- Loan Officers
- Lodging Managers
- Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Mechatronics Engineers
- Medical Appliance Technicians
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
- Paramedics
- Park Naturalists
- Patient Representatives
- Personal Financial Advisors
- Pest Control Workers
- Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers
- Police Identification and Records Officers
- Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
- Power Plant Operators
- Precision Agriculture Technicians
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
- Procurement Clerks
- Project Management Specialists
- Public Safety Telecommunicators
- Purchasing Managers
- Quality Control Systems Managers
- Remote Sensing Technicians
- Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
- Search Marketing Strategists
- Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
- Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
- Set and Exhibit Designers
- Signal and Track Switch Repairers
- Social Science Research Assistants
- Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Special Effects Artists and Animators
- Statistical Assistants
- Surveyors
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.