At a glance

الوصف Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.

Alternate titles
  • Air and Water Filler
  • Airport Maintenance Laborer
  • Aluminum Can Collector
  • Ash Collector
  • Ash Handler
  • Ash Pit Worker
  • Ash Worker
  • Assorter
  • Bag Turner
  • Bag Worker
  • Baggageman
  • Bagger
  • Bagger Helper
  • Bale Opener
  • Bale Piler
  • Bale Stacker
  • Banana Carrier
  • Banana Handler
  • Banana Loader
  • Bandoleer Straightener Stamper
Alternate titles
  • Barge Shore Hand
  • Barrel Handler
  • Barrel Loader
  • Barrow Worker
  • Basin Cleaner
  • Battery Stacker
  • Beef Selector
  • Bellows Assembler
  • Billet Straightener
  • Billet Worker
  • Bleeder
  • Blender Laborer
  • Block Piler
  • Block Stacker
  • Bolt Loader
  • Bottomer
  • Box Car Bracer
  • Box Car Loader
  • Box Worker
  • Boxer
  • Bridge and Building Gang Worker (B and B Gang Worker)
  • Bridge Gang Worker
  • Bridge Maintainer
  • Buggyman
  • Bulk Loader
  • Bull Gang Worker
  • Bundle Collector
  • Bundle Helper
  • Bundler
  • Cable Puller
  • Caddy
  • Cager
  • Canvas Shrinker
  • Car Blocker
  • Car Bracer
  • Car Dumper Operator Helper
  • Car Icer
  • Car Knocker
  • Car Loader
  • Car Packer
  • Car Pincher
  • Car Precooler
  • Car Storer
  • Car Stower
  • Car Unloader
  • Car Worker
  • Carboy Filler
  • Cargo Bracer
  • Cargo Handler
  • Cargo Station Worker
  • Cargo Trimmer
  • Cargo Worker
  • Cart Attendant
  • Cart Pusher
  • Casting Chipper
  • Casting House Laborer
  • Chainer
  • Chute Loader
  • Circus Hand
  • Circus Laborer
  • Circus Roustabout
  • Clay Carrier
  • Coal Bagger
  • Coal Carrier
  • Coal Chute Worker
  • Coal Hiker
  • Coal Loader
  • Coal Passer
  • Coal Shoveler
  • Coal Trimmer
  • Coal Wheeler
  • Coke Worker
  • Commissary Assistant
  • Concrete Mixing Plant Laborer
  • Container Maker
  • Cooler Man
  • Cooler Worker
  • Core Finisher
  • Corn Detasseler
  • Cotton Baler
  • Cotton Jammer
  • Cream Dumper
  • Dairy Hand
  • Dairy Worker
  • Defroster
  • Delivery Clerk
  • Delivery Helper
  • Detasseler
  • Disassembler
  • Dismantler
  • Distillery Laborer
  • Distillery Worker
  • Ditch Cleaner
  • Ditch Worker
  • Dock Hand
  • Dock Laborer
  • Dock Worker
  • Dolly Pusher
  • Dollyman
  • Dredge Hand
  • Driver Helper
  • Dry Kiln Worker
  • Dumper
  • Electroplating Laborer
  • Engine Monitor
  • Engine Watchman
  • Feed Handler
  • Ferryboat Operator Helper
  • Fertilizer Loader
  • Filling Carrier
  • Filling Hand
  • Filling Hauler
  • Film Loader
  • Firewood Cutter
  • Flapper
  • Flask Carrier
  • Flask Handler
  • Flask Pusher
  • Fleet Service Agent
  • Floor Helper
  • Floorhand
  • Floorperson
  • Fly Worker
  • Flyer
  • Food Selector
  • Foundry Hand
  • Freezer Unloader
  • Freezer Worker
  • Freezing Room Worker
  • Freight Car Loader
  • Freight Handler
  • Freight Hustler
  • Freight Loader
  • Freight Sorter
  • Freight Unloader
  • Fringer
  • Frozen Food Selector
  • Furniture Mover
  • Furniture Mover Helper
  • Gaggerman
  • Gandy Dancer
  • Gang Plank Workman
  • Glass Carrier
  • Glass Handler
  • Glaze Carrier
  • Globe Changer
  • Glove Former
  • Glove Turner
  • Gold Leaf Laborer
  • Grain Handler
  • Grain Scooper
  • Grain Shoveler
  • Grain Trimmer
  • Grave Digger
  • Grip
  • Grocery Bagger
  • Grocery Caddy
  • Grocery Carrier
  • Grocery Sacker
  • Guideman
  • Gum Puller
  • Hangar Attendant
  • Hatch Tender
  • Hide Selector
  • Hide Shaker
  • Hoisting Laborer
  • Hold Worker
  • Hooker
  • Hookman
  • Hostler
  • Hot Box Operator
  • Hot Plate Plywood Press Laborer
  • Houseman
  • Iceman
  • Icer
  • Iron Carrier
  • Iron Handler
  • Iron Piler
  • Jacket Changer
  • Jackman
  • Kiln Hand
  • Laborer
  • Laundry Laborer
  • Leaf Tier
  • Leather Roller
  • Lifter
  • Line Palletizer
  • Line Service Attendant
  • Line Tender
  • Lines Tender
  • Linseed Oil Order Filler
  • Load Puller
  • Loader
  • Loader Helper
  • Loader Operator (Loader Op)
  • Loading Dock Hand
  • Locker Attendant
  • Locker Plant Attendant
  • Log Pond Worker
  • Log Roller
  • Longshoreman
  • Lot Associate
  • Lugger
  • Lumber Carrier
  • Lumber Handler
  • Lumber Material Handler
  • Lumber Mover
  • Lumber Piler
  • Lumber Stacker
  • Lumber Yard Worker
  • Lumberman
  • Lumper
  • Manufacturing Laborer
  • Material Carrier
  • Material Chaser
  • Material Handler
  • Material Handler Floorperson
  • Material Loader
  • Material Mover
  • Materials Handler
  • Meat Selector
  • Merchandise Carrier
  • Merchandise Collector
  • Merchandise Pick Up Associate
  • Merchandise Receiving Associate
  • Metal Grader
  • Metal Handler
  • Metal Loader
  • Metal Sorter
  • Microphone Boom Operator (Microphone Boom Op)
  • Milk Handler
  • Mold Breaker
  • Mold Swabber
  • Motion Picture Set Grip
  • Motion Picture Set-Up Worker
  • Motion Picture Sets, Studios, and Stages Set-Up Worker
  • Motor Power Connector
  • Mover
  • Mover Helper
  • Moving Worker
  • Mucker
  • Munitions Handler
  • Newspaper Stuffer
  • Odd Job Laborer
  • Oil Extractor
  • Ore Puncher
  • Oven Loader
  • Package Collector
  • Package Handler
  • Package Sorter
  • Package Worker
  • Packing Floor Worker
  • Packing House Laborer
  • Paper Handler
  • Paper Stacker
  • Paper Stripper
  • Parcel Carrier
  • Parts Runner
  • Pattern Carrier
  • Piano Mover
  • Pier Laborer
  • Pig Handler
  • Piler
  • Pipe Stripper
  • Pipelines Laborer
  • Pipeman
  • Pit Shoveler
  • Pitcher
  • Platform Loader
  • Platform Worker
  • Potato Loader
  • Poultry Offal Icer
  • Poultry Offal Worker
  • Pourer
  • Powerhouse Laborer
  • Priming Mixture Carrier
  • Produce Clerk
  • Produce Runner
  • Prop Attendant
  • Prop Worker
  • Property Worker
  • Puller
  • Puncher
  • Rag Cutter
  • Rag Grader
  • Rag Sorter
  • Ragman
  • Ramp Agent
  • Receiver
  • Receiving Associate
  • Recording Studio Setup Worker
  • Refrigerator Mover
  • Rod Piler
  • Rod Straightener
  • Roll Carrier
  • Rope Cleaner
  • Roustabout
  • Sack Cleaner
  • Sack Filler
  • Sack Lifter
  • Sacker
  • Salt Lifter
  • Salvage Worker
  • Sand Car Worker
  • Sand Carrier
  • Sand Drier
  • Sand Mixer
  • Sand Screener
  • Sand Shoveler
  • Sand Wheeler
  • Scavenger
  • Scene Shifter
  • Scrap Carrier
  • Scrap Collector
  • Scrap Iron Loader
  • Scrap Picker
  • Screener
  • Seed Trucker
  • Selector
  • Service Attendant
  • Setter Helper
  • Shackler
  • Shaver
  • Sheep Sorter
  • Shelf Stocker
  • Shellfish Processing Laborer
  • Shingle Carrier
  • Ship Fastener
  • Shipping and Receiving Material Handler
  • Shipping and Receiving Materials Handler
  • Shoveler
  • Sign Poster
  • Skating Rink Ice Maker
  • Skid Strapper
  • Skid Wrapper
  • Skin Piler
  • Slag Dumper
  • Slag Worker
  • Slip Box Changer
  • Snow Shoveler
  • Snubber
  • Sorter
  • Spike Driver
  • Spiker
  • Spreader
  • Stabber
  • Stacker
  • Stage Hand
  • Stage Set-Up Worker
  • Stagehand
  • Steel Handler
  • Steel Pickler
  • Steel Unloader
  • Stevedore
  • Stevedores
  • Stock Clerk
  • Stock Counter
  • Stock Driver
  • Stock Handler
  • Stock Handler Floorperson
  • Stock Handler Helper
  • Stock Mover
  • Stock Puller
  • Stock Replenisher
  • Stocker
  • Stockroom Helper
  • Storeroom Clerk
  • Street Cleaner
  • Street Light Cleaner
  • Street Light Lamp Cleaner
  • Street Sweeper
  • Striker
  • Studio Grip
  • Studio Set-Up Worker
  • Stuffer
  • Supplies Packer
  • Tandem Mill Sticker
  • Tar Worker
  • Tent Worker
  • Terminal Worker
  • Theater Technician (Theater Tech)
  • Tie Layer
  • Tie Loader
  • Tie Tamper
  • Timber Cutter
  • Tin Stacker
  • Tissue Packer
  • Tombstone Erector
  • Tombstone Setter
  • Tool Carrier
  • Tool Chaser
  • Track Fitter
  • Track Greaser
  • Track Sweeper
  • Track Walker
  • Track Worker
  • Tractor Trailer Moving Van Driver Helper
  • Tree Girdler
  • Trestle Maintenance Laborer
  • Trestleman
  • Trimmer
  • Trimmer Loader
  • Truck Bracer
  • Truck Dock Material Mover
  • Truck Driver Helper
  • Truck Loader and Unloader
  • Truck Packer
  • Truck Striker
  • Trucker
  • Truckman
  • Unloader
  • Unloading and Loading Line Service Attendant
  • Van Driver Helper
  • Van Loader
  • Vat House Laborer
  • Vault Person
  • Vegetable Handler
  • Warehouse Assistant
  • Warehouse Associate
  • Warehouse Attendant
  • Warehouse Clerk
  • Warehouse Hand
  • Warehouse Helper
  • Warehouse Laborer
  • Warehouse Loader
  • Warehouse Material Handler
  • Warehouse Package Handler
  • Warehouse Selector
  • Warehouse Shift Manager
  • Warehouse Worker
  • Warehouseman
  • Water Attendant
  • Water Carrier
  • Waxer
  • Weight Shifter
  • Wharf Laborer
  • Wharf Tender
  • Wharf Worker
  • Wheel Roller
  • Wheeler
  • Wood Chopper
  • Wood Cutter
  • Wood Sawyer
  • Wrecker
  • Yard Cleaner
  • Yard Laborer
  • Yard Person
  • Yardman
  • Yeast Pusher
متوسط الأجر بالساعة دولار17.13 - دولار22.53 (دولار35,640.00 - دولار46,860.00 annually)*
إجمالي الافتتاحات السنوية655
إجمالي عدد الموظفين5,194

A day in the life

  • Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
  • Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Work activities
  • Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
  • Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
  • Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
  • Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
  • Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
  • Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
  • Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
  • Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
  • Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
  • Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
  • Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
  • Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
  • Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
  • Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
  • Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
  • Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
  • Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
  • Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
  • Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
  • Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
  • Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
  • Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
  • Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
  • Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
  • Communicating with People Outside the Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
  • Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
  • Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
  • Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
  • Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
  • Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
  • Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
  • Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
  • Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
  • Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
  • Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
Work styles
  • Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
  • Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
  • Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
  • Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
  • Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
  • Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
  • Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
  • Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
  • Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
  • Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
  • Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
  • Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
  • Relationships: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
  • Support: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
  • Working Conditions: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Work values
  • Achievement: Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
  • Recognition: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
  • Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
  • Realistic: Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
  • Conventional: Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
  • Enterprising: Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
Work interests
  • Social: Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
  • Investigative: Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.
  • Artistic: Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.
  • Read work orders or receive oral instructions to determine work assignments or material or equipment needs.
  • Move freight, stock, or other materials to and from storage or production areas, loading docks, delivery vehicles, ships, or containers, by hand or using trucks, tractors, or other equipment.
  • Maintain equipment storage areas to ensure that inventory is protected.
Work tasks
  • Attach identifying tags to containers or mark them with identifying information.
  • Record numbers of units handled or moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.
  • Sort cargo before loading and unloading.
  • Assemble product containers or crates, using hand tools and precut lumber.
  • Pack containers and re-pack damaged containers.
  • Carry needed tools or supplies from storage or trucks and return them after use.
  • Install protective devices, such as bracing, padding, or strapping, to prevent shifting or damage to items being transported.
  • Attach slings, hooks, or other devices to lift cargo and guide loads.
  • Adjust controls to guide, position, or move equipment, such as cranes, booms, or cameras.
  • Connect electrical equipment to power sources so that it can be tested before use.
  • Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Work knowledge
  • Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
  • Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  • Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
  • Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  • Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
  • Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  • Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • Physics: Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
  • Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  • Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  • Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  • Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
  • Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  • Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  • Foreign Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  • Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  • Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  • Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  • Philosophy and Theology: Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  • Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
  • Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
  • History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  • Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
  • Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
  • Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
Work abilities
  • Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
  • Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
  • Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
  • Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
  • Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
  • Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
  • Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
  • Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
  • Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
  • Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
  • Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
  • Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
  • Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
  • Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
  • Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
  • Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
  • Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
  • Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
  • Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
  • Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
  • Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
  • Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
  • Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
  • Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
  • Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
  • Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
  • Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
  • Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
  • Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
  • Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
  • Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
  • Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
  • Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
  • Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
  • Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
  • Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
  • Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
  • Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
  • Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
  • Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
  • Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
  • Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
  • Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
  • Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
  • Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Work skills
  • Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
  • Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
  • Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
  • Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
  • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
  • Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
  • Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
  • Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
  • Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
  • Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
  • Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
  • Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
  • Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
  • Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
  • Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
  • Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
  • Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
  • Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
  • Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Education & Training

Education No formal educational credential

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Training Short-term on-the-job training

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