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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 13 of 16.
- Fence Erectors
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
- Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
- Fishing and Hunting Workers
- Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Servers, Nonrestaurant
- Forest and Conservation Workers
- Funeral Attendants
- Furniture Finishers
- Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers
- Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
- Gas Plant Operators
- Gem and Diamond Workers
- Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
- Geothermal Technicians
- Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
- Glaziers
- Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
- Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
- Helpers--Carpenters
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Home Health Aides
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Library Assistants, Clerical
- Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining
- Machinists
- Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Manicurists and Pedicurists
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
- Mechanical Door Repairers
- Medical Transcriptionists
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Meter Readers, Utilities
- Millwrights
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Model Makers, Wood
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Motion Picture Projectionists
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
- Orderlies
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Paperhangers
- Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
- Personal Care Aides
- Physical Therapist Aides
- Pipelayers
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
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.