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Needed by 366 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.
- Insurance Sales Agents
- Insurance Underwriters
- Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates
- Loan Officers
- Logistics Analysts
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
- Mechanical Drafters
- Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- Medical Appliance Technicians
- Medical Equipment Preparers
- Medical Records Specialists
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
- Music Directors and Composers
- Nuclear Medicine Technologists
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Paramedics
- Patient Representatives
- Personal Care Aides
- Pest Control Workers
- Photonics Technicians
- Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers
- Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
- Police Identification and Records Officers
- Power Distributors and Dispatchers
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
- Public Safety Telecommunicators
- Quality Control Analysts
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
- Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
- Remote Sensing Technicians
- Residential Advisors
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Ship Engineers
- Skincare Specialists
- Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Surveying and Mapping Technicians
- Talent Directors
- Tax Preparers
- Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
- Travel Guides
- Upholsterers
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Weatherization Installers and Technicians
- Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
- Wind Energy Development Managers
- Wind Energy Engineers
- Actors
- Acupuncturists
- Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Architectural and Civil Drafters
- Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Avionics Technicians
- Bicycle Repairers
- Blockchain Engineers
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.