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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 7 of 16.
- Security Management Specialists
- Set and Exhibit Designers
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
- Surveyors
- Talent Directors
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
- Telecommunications Engineering Specialists
- Training and Development Specialists
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
- Web Administrators
- Wind Energy Development Managers
- Wind Energy Operations Managers
- Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
- Advertising and Promotions Managers
- Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians
- Agricultural Inspectors
- Air Traffic Controllers
- Airfield Operations Specialists
- Architectural and Civil Drafters
- Art Directors
- Art Therapists
- Athletic Trainers
- Billing and Posting Clerks
- Bioinformatics Technicians
- Brokerage Clerks
- Budget Analysts
- Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Commercial Pilots
- Computer and Information Research Scientists
- Correspondence Clerks
- Database Administrators
- Desktop Publishers
- Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
- Digital Forensics Analysts
- Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
- Facilities Managers
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
- Fish and Game Wardens
- Food Science Technicians
- Food Service Managers
- Freight Forwarders
- Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
- Health Education Specialists
- Insurance Underwriters
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Mechatronics Engineers
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists
- Medical Assistants
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Nuclear Monitoring Technicians
- Office Clerks, General
- Opticians, Dispensing
- Park Naturalists
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
- Police Identification and Records Officers
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.