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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 5 of 16.
- Physical Therapists
- Podiatrists
- Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
- Procurement Clerks
- Producers and Directors
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
- Psychiatrists
- Public Relations Specialists
- Quality Control Systems Managers
- Range Managers
- Real Estate Brokers
- Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Regulatory Affairs Specialists
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
- Sales Engineers
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Social Science Research Assistants
- Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
- Sociologists
- Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
- Soil and Plant Scientists
- Solar Energy Systems Engineers
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Statisticians
- Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
- Supply Chain Managers
- Sustainability Specialists
- Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
- Tax Preparers
- Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
- Training and Development Managers
- Transportation Engineers
- Transportation Planners
- Travel Agents
- Treasurers and Controllers
- Urban and Regional Planners
- Water Resource Specialists
- Water/Wastewater Engineers
- Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
- Accountants and Auditors
- Adapted Physical Education Specialists
- Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property
- Aviation Inspectors
- Biofuels Production Managers
- Biomass Power Plant Managers
- Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- Chiropractors
- Civil Engineers
- Clergy
- Clinical Data Managers
- Commercial and Industrial Designers
- Community Health Workers
- Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
- Computer Systems Analysts
- Conservation Scientists
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.