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Summary Job Description Education Skills, Abilities and Interests More Information
Skills, Abilities & Interests

Interest Area
InvestigativeInvolves working with ideas and requires an extensive amount of thinking.

Work Values
AchievementGet a feeling of accomplishment.
Working ConditionsGood working conditions.

Skills
MonitoringAssess how well someone is doing when learning or doing something.
Critical ThinkingUse logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.
Operation and ControlControl operations of equipment or systems.
Quality Control AnalysisConduct tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Active ListeningListen to what other people are saying and ask questions as appropriate.
Time ManagementManage one's own time and the time of others.
TroubleshootingDetermine what is causing an operating error and deciding what to do about it.
Equipment MaintenancePerform routine maintenance and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
Active LearningWork with new material or information to grasp its implications.
Complex Problem SolvingSolving novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings.
Operation MonitoringWatch gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Reading ComprehensionUnderstand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
ScienceUse scientific methods to solve problems.

Abilities
Oral ExpressionAble to convey information and ideas through speech in ways that others will understand.
Deductive ReasoningAble to apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers, including deciding whether an answer makes sense.
Problem SensitivityAble to tell when something is wrong or likely to go wrong. This doesn't involve solving the problem, just recognizing that there is a problem.
Written ComprehensionAble to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Near VisionAble to see details of objects at a close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Information OrderingAble to correctly follow rules for arranging things or actions in a certain order, including numbers, words, pictures, procedures, and logical operations.
Inductive ReasoningAble to combine separate pieces of information, or specific answers to problems, to form general rules or conclusions. This includes coming up with a logical explanation for why seemingly unrelated events occur together.