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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 8 of 16.
- Surgical Assistants
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
- Technical Writers
- Water/Wastewater Engineers
- Writers and Authors
- Acupuncturists
- Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians
- Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
- Animal Control Workers
- Baggage Porters and Bellhops
- Biofuels Production Managers
- Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers
- Cargo and Freight Agents
- Conservation Scientists
- Credit Analysts
- Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks
- Data Scientists
- Driver/Sales Workers
- Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- Floral Designers
- Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators
- Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
- Information Security Analysts
- Insurance Underwriters
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Medical Appliance Technicians
- Microsystems Engineers
- Museum Technicians and Conservators
- Music Directors and Composers
- Occupational Therapy Aides
- Office Clerks, General
- Paralegals and Legal Assistants
- Pest Control Workers
- Photonics Engineers
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Search Marketing Strategists
- Self-Enrichment Teachers
- Solar Energy Installation Managers
- Sound Engineering Technicians
- Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
- Surveyors
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
- Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
- Transportation Inspectors
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
- Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials
- Veterinary Technologists and Technicians
- Agricultural Inspectors
- Animal Trainers
- Archivists
- Automotive Engineering Technicians
- Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels
- Chemical Engineers
- Commercial and Industrial Designers
- Commercial Divers
- Computer and Information Research Scientists
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.