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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 3 of 16.
- Art Directors
- Art Therapists
- Astronomers
- Atmospheric and Space Scientists
- Audiologists
- Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Biologists
- Biomass Power Plant Managers
- Biostatisticians
- Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
- Business Continuity Planners
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Chiropractors
- Clinical Neuropsychologists
- Community Health Workers
- Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Computer Systems Analysts
- Computer User Support Specialists
- Concierges
- Critical Care Nurses
- Curators
- Customs and Border Protection Officers
- Dentists, General
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
- Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
- Economists
- Editors
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Environmental Engineers
- Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
- Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers
- Exercise Physiologists
- Financial Examiners
- Financial Managers
- Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers
- First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
- Forensic Science Technicians
- Foresters
- Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- General and Operations Managers
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Genetic Counselors
- Geneticists
- Geographers
- Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
- Government Property Inspectors and Investigators
- Health Informatics Specialists
- Historians
- Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists
- Industrial Ecologists
- Industrial Production Managers
- Intelligence Analysts
- Interior Designers
- Judicial Law Clerks
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.