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Operation and Control
Needed by 213 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 10 of 16.
- Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
- Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Animal Scientists
- Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Biologists
- Chief Executives
- Compliance Officers
- Construction and Building Inspectors
- Data Warehousing Specialists
- Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar
- Film and Video Editors
- First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
- General and Operations Managers
- Medical Dosimetrists
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Museum Technicians and Conservators
- Nannies
- Occupational Therapy Aides
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Orderlies
- Phlebotomists
- Physicists
- Producers and Directors
- Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
- Spa Managers
- Tapers
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
- Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
- Veterinarians
- Wind Energy Development Managers
- Animal Trainers
- Astronomers
- Athletes and Sports Competitors
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
- Chiropractors
- Clinical Data Managers
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Computer Hardware Engineers
- Database Architects
- Demonstrators and Product Promoters
- Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
- Emergency Management Directors
- Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers
- First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
- Food Preparation Workers
- Geneticists
- Information Security Analysts
- Insurance Sales Agents
- Interior Designers
- Library Technicians
- Logistics Engineers
- Mechanical Drafters
- Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
- Nurse Midwives
- Nurse Practitioners
- Pharmacy Aides
- Postal Service Clerks
- Public Relations Managers
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.