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Needed by 739 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 11 of 16.
- Light Truck Drivers
- Locomotive Engineers
- Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
- Medical Equipment Preparers
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Musicians and Singers
- Nursing Assistants
- Occupational Therapy Aides
- Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
- Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
- Ophthalmic Medical Technologists
- Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
- Patternmakers, Wood
- Phlebotomists
- Photographers
- Physical Therapist Aides
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Postal Service Clerks
- Power Plant Operators
- Print Binding and Finishing Workers
- Printing Press Operators
- Psychiatric Aides
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
- Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
- Receptionists and Information Clerks
- Recreation Workers
- Residential Advisors
- Riggers
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
- Self-Enrichment Teachers
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Ship Engineers
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Skincare Specialists
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Subway and Streetcar Operators
- Surgical Technologists
- Tellers
- Transit and Railroad Police
- Upholsterers
- Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
- Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders
- Aircraft Service Attendants
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Animal Caretakers
- Animal Control Workers
- Bartenders
- Bicycle Repairers
- Biomass Plant Technicians
- Boilermakers
- Bus Drivers, School
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Childcare Workers
- Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers
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.