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Needed by 151 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 10 of 16.
- Human Resources Managers
- Instructional Coordinators
- Lawyers
- Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers
- Logging Equipment Operators
- Machinists
- Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
- Massage Therapists
- Medical Transcriptionists
- Motorboat Operators
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Penetration Testers
- Pharmacy Aides
- Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Private Detectives and Investigators
- Public Relations Specialists
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
- Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
- Roof Bolters, Mining
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- Security Guards
- Security Management Specialists
- Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
- Talent Directors
- Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders
- Training and Development Managers
- Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
- Aircraft Service Attendants
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property
- Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
- Carpenters
- Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
- Clergy
- Compliance Managers
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Cooks, Private Household
- Cooks, Restaurant
- Correctional Officers and Jailers
- Cost Estimators
- Credit Analysts
- Directors, Religious Activities and Education
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
- Flight Attendants
- Fundraisers
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Insurance Underwriters
- Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
- Media Programming Directors
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Paralegals and Legal Assistants
- Personal Financial Advisors
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.