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Writing
Needed by 593 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 1 of 16.
- Writers and Authors
- Technical Writers
- Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers
- Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Editors
- Neuropsychologists
- Physicists
- Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
- Anthropologists and Archeologists
- Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators
- Biochemists and Biophysicists
- Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Lawyers
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Survey Researchers
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Astronomers
- Biologists
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Chief Executives
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
- Electrical Engineers
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Environmental Economists
- Epidemiologists
- Family Medicine Physicians
- Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Geographers
- Geography Teachers, Postsecondary
- Health Education Specialists
- Historians
- History Teachers, Postsecondary
- Human Resources Managers
- Instructional Coordinators
- Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates
- Judicial Law Clerks
- Law Teachers, Postsecondary
- Logistics Engineers
- Mental Health Counselors
- Physicians, Pathologists
- Preventive Medicine Physicians
- Radiologists
- School Psychologists
- Urologists
- Acute Care Nurses
- Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
- Aerospace Engineers
- Agricultural Engineers
- Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Anesthesiologists
- Animal Scientists
- Architectural and Engineering Managers
- Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary
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.