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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 9 of 16.
- Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders
- Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
- Locomotive Engineers
- Manicurists and Pedicurists
- Meter Readers, Utilities
- Midwives
- Museum Technicians and Conservators
- Nuclear Monitoring Technicians
- Paperhangers
- Parking Enforcement Workers
- Public Safety Telecommunicators
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
- Sewing Machine Operators
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Travel Guides
- Urologists
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Animal Breeders
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
- Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
- Conservation Scientists
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners
- Environmental Restoration Planners
- Floral Designers
- Home Health Aides
- Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers
- Lodging Managers
- Materials Scientists
- Mechanical Drafters
- Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
- Music Directors and Composers
- Musicians and Singers
- Neurologists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Paramedics
- Pharmacy Aides
- Power Distributors and Dispatchers
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
- Recreation Workers
- Recreational Therapists
- Sewers, Hand
- Shampooers
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers
- Social Science Research Assistants
- Sports Medicine Physicians
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
- Adapted Physical Education Specialists
- Air Traffic Controllers
- Airfield Operations Specialists
- Anesthesiologists
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
- Bartenders
- Biofuels Production Managers
- Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Blockchain Engineers
- Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
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.