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Reading Comprehension
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 2 of 16.
- Audiologists
- Biologists
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Chief Executives
- Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
- Clinical Neuropsychologists
- Economists
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar
- Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers
- Financial Examiners
- Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Genetic Counselors
- Geographers
- Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
- Hospitalists
- Industrial Ecologists
- Information Security Engineers
- Landscape Architects
- Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
- Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Management Analysts
- Media Programming Directors
- Mental Health Counselors
- Microbiologists
- Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Neurologists
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Optometrists
- Pediatricians, General
- Personal Financial Advisors
- Physician Assistants
- Physics Teachers, Postsecondary
- Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Public Relations Managers
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Security Managers
- Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Technical Writers
- Tutors
- Validation Engineers
- Veterinarians
- Writers and Authors
- Actors
- Administrative Services Managers
- Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
- Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
- Agricultural Engineers
- Anesthesiologist Assistants
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
- Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
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.