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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 14 of 16.
- Passenger Attendants
- Personal Care Aides
- Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation
- Pipelayers
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Rail Car Repairers
- Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers
- Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons
- Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
- Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
- Signal and Track Switch Repairers
- Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Tile and Stone Setters
- Tool and Die Makers
- Watch and Clock Repairers
- Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
- Barbers
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
- Cashiers
- Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Construction Laborers
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Cooks, Fast Food
- Cooks, Restaurant
- Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Dancers
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Farm Labor Contractors
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- Fishing and Hunting Workers
- Funeral Attendants
- Furniture Finishers
- Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Manicurists and Pedicurists
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Pourers and Casters, Metal
- Rock Splitters, Quarry
- School Bus Monitors
- Segmental Pavers
- Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
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.