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Equipment Selection
Needed by 41 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 8 of 16.
- Construction Managers
- Counter and Rental Clerks
- Database Architects
- Dental Hygienists
- Desktop Publishers
- Detectives and Criminal Investigators
- Digital Forensics Analysts
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
- Electrical and Electronics Drafters
- Embalmers
- First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Science Technicians
- Foresters
- Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians
- Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service
- Medical Assistants
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Music Therapists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Ophthalmic Medical Technologists
- Packers and Packagers, Hand
- Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
- Penetration Testers
- Physicians, Pathologists
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Radiologists
- Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
- Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
- Baggage Porters and Bellhops
- Bakers
- Biostatisticians
- Bridge and Lock Tenders
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Cartographers and Photogrammetrists
- Commercial Pilots
- Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria
- Correctional Officers and Jailers
- Critical Care Nurses
- Data Entry Keyers
- Data Warehousing Specialists
- Database Administrators
- Dishwashers
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
- Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers
- Fashion Designers
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
- Fish and Game Wardens
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Freight Forwarders
- Funeral Attendants
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.