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Needed by 811 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.
- Hearing Aid Specialists
- Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
- Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants
- Locomotive Engineers
- Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
- Mechanical Engineers
- Motorboat Operators
- Musicians and Singers
- Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Penetration Testers
- Pharmacy Aides
- Power Plant Operators
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
- Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
- Social Science Research Assistants
- Statistical Assistants
- Subway and Streetcar Operators
- Transportation Security Screeners
- Wind Energy Engineers
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Amusement and Recreation Attendants
- Architectural and Civil Drafters
- Baristas
- Biofuels Processing Technicians
- Blockchain Engineers
- Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film
- Computer Network Support Specialists
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Construction Laborers
- Couriers and Messengers
- Electrical and Electronics Drafters
- File Clerks
- Film and Video Editors
- First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Freight Forwarders
- Histotechnologists
- Library Technicians
- Mathematicians
- Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators
- Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
- Nuclear Technicians
- Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
- Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators
- Postal Service Clerks
- Proofreaders and Copy Markers
- Radiation Therapists
- Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Robotics Engineers
- Robotics Technicians
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- School Bus Monitors
- Security Guards
- Shampooers
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
- Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
- Special Effects Artists and Animators
- Telecommunications Engineering Specialists
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.