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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 12 of 16.
- Printing Press Operators
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Quality Control Analysts
- Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
- Software Developers
- Surgical Technologists
- Tax Preparers
- Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
- Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
- Video Game Designers
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Weatherization Installers and Technicians
- Web and Digital Interface Designers
- Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
- Wind Turbine Service Technicians
- Agricultural Technicians
- Aircraft Service Attendants
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Animal Breeders
- Automotive Body and Related Repairers
- Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Bicycle Repairers
- Biomass Plant Technicians
- Boilermakers
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Bridge and Lock Tenders
- Broadcast Technicians
- Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers
- Cashiers
- Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators
- Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Cooks, Private Household
- Cooks, Restaurant
- Cooks, Short Order
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners
- Craft Artists
- Crane and Tower Operators
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Dental Laboratory Technicians
- Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment
- Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers
- Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles
- Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Etchers and Engravers
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
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.