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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 14 of 16.
- Postal Service Mail Carriers
- Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
- Print Binding and Finishing Workers
- Rail Car Repairers
- Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers
- Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
- Riggers
- Roof Bolters, Mining
- Sailors and Marine Oilers
- Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Stonemasons
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Surveying and Mapping Technicians
- Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
- Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders
- Team Assemblers
- Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
- Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Tile and Stone Setters
- Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation
- Tree Trimmers and Pruners
- Upholsterers
- Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
- Watch and Clock Repairers
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Wellhead Pumpers
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Word Processors and Typists
- Animal Caretakers
- Bakers
- Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
- Carpet Installers
- Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
- Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
- Cooks, Fast Food
- Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
- Dancers
- Data Entry Keyers
- Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
- Dredge Operators
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
- Food Preparation Workers
- Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
- Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics
- Patternmakers, Wood
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.