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Judgment and Decision Making
Needed by 696 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.
- Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
- Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
- Film and Video Editors
- Fire Inspectors and Investigators
- First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
- First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
- First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
- Fishing and Hunting Workers
- Food Service Managers
- Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians
- Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
- Geothermal Technicians
- Graphic Designers
- Hearing Aid Specialists
- Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
- Histology Technicians
- Historians
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Industrial Engineers
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- Intelligence Analysts
- Interpreters and Translators
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists
- Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
- Millwrights
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Motorcycle Mechanics
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Non-Destructive Testing Specialists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Order Clerks
- Patient Representatives
- Pest Control Workers
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Photographers
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Power Plant Operators
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
- Print Binding and Finishing Workers
- Printing Press Operators
- Psychiatric Aides
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
- Recreational Therapists
- Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
- Residential Advisors
- Robotics Technicians
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
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.