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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 6 of 16.
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Firefighters
- Food Batchmakers
- Forest and Conservation Workers
- Gas Plant Operators
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
- Pest Control Workers
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Power Plant Operators
- Psychiatric Technicians
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
- Recreational Therapists
- Rehabilitation Counselors
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Speech-Language Pathology Assistants
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
- Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
- Weatherization Installers and Technicians
- Web Developers
- Wind Energy Operations Managers
- Wind Turbine Service Technicians
- Actuaries
- Archivists
- Art Therapists
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
- Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- Cartographers and Photogrammetrists
- Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
- Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
- Computer Network Support Specialists
- Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Customs and Border Protection Officers
- Data Warehousing Specialists
- Database Architects
- Economists
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Electrical and Electronics Drafters
- Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles
- Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers
- Emergency Management Directors
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
- Financial Quantitative Analysts
- Fire Inspectors and Investigators
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
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.