- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who coordinates activities of clerical personnel in establishment or organization. Responsibilities include:
* Analyses and organizes office operations and procedures, such as typing, bookkeeping, preparation of payrolls, flow of correspondence, filing, requisition of supplies, and other clerical services.
* Evaluates office production, revises procedures, or devises new forms to improve efficiency of workflow.
* Establishes uniform correspondence procedures and style practices.
* Formulates procedures for systematic retention, protection, retrieval, transfer, and disposal of records.
* Plans office layouts and initiates cost reduction programs.
* Reviews clerical and personnel records to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
* Prepares activities reports for guidance of management, using computer.
* Prepares employee ratings and conducts employee benefit and insurance programs, using computer.
* Coordinates activities of various clerical departments or workers within department.
* May prepare organizational budget and monthly financial reports.
* May hire, train, and supervise clerical staff.
* May compile, store, and retrieve managerial data, using computer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of personnel of order-writing department. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and initiates order-writing procedures, using knowledge of company products, pricing methods, and discount classifications.
* Directs establishment and maintenance of customer order records, such as discount classifications, cost basis, special routing, and transportation information.
* Supervises workers writing master orders used by production, shipping, invoicing, advertising, cost, and estimating departments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who enforces laws, regulations, and policies in state or national park. Responsibilities include:
* Registers vehicles and visitors, collects fees, and issues parking and use permits.
* Provides information pertaining to park use, safety requirements, and points of interest.
* Directs traffic, investigates accidents, and patrols area to prevent fires, vandalism, and theft.
* Cautions, evicts, or apprehends violators of laws and regulations.
* Directs or participates in first aid and rescue activities.
* May supervise workers engaged in construction and maintenance of park facilities and enforces standards of cleanliness and sanitation.
* May compile specified park-use statistics, keep records, and prepare reports of area activities.
* May train and supervise park workers and concession attendants.
* May specialize in snow safety and avalanche control and be designated Snow Ranger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who enforces laws, regulations, and policies in state or national park. Responsibilities include:
* Registers vehicles and visitors, collects fees, and issues parking and use permits.
* Provides information pertaining to park use, safety requirements, and points of interest.
* Directs traffic, investigates accidents, and patrols area to prevent fires, vandalism, and theft.
* Cautions, evicts, or apprehends violators of laws and regulations.
* Directs or participates in first aid and rescue activities.
* May supervise workers engaged in construction and maintenance of park facilities and enforces standards of cleanliness and sanitation.
* May compile specified park-use statistics, keep records, and prepare reports of area activities.
* May train and supervise park workers and concession attendants.
* May specialize in snow safety and avalanche control and be designated Snow Ranger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records and maintains birth and death certificates and communicable disease reports, and prepares statistical data and medical reports for city or county public health department. Responsibilities include:
* Registers birth, death, and communicable disease statistics from information supplied by physicians, hospital personnel, funeral directors, and representatives from other agencies.
* Analyzes cause of death statements and communicable disease reports for compliance with laws and local regulations, consistency, and completeness.
* Contacts information sources concerning vital statistics and disease reports to resolve discrepancies and obtain additional information.
* Makes certified copies of documents and issues permits to remove and bury bodies.
* Prepares reports, such as epidemiological case history and morbidity report and keeps file of communicable disease cases.
* Refers tuberculosis cases and contacts to appropriate health agencies for consultation, treatment referral, and assistance in disease control.
* Obtains medical, statistical, and sociological data for use by workers in various public health departments.
* Assists in maintaining statistical data file and medical information reference library.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who explains group insurance programs to promote sale of insurance to prospective clients and establishes bookkeeping system for insurance plan. Responsibilities include:
* Explains types of insurance coverage, such as health, accident, life, or liability, and accounting documentation required by company, as requested by sales agent, insurance.
* Plans and oversees incorporation of insurance program into a company's bookkeeping system.
* Establishes client's method of payment.
* May install accounting systems and resolve system problems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of engineering, tool design, purchasing, and other departments, to facilitate production or procurement of tooling. Responsibilities include:
* Evaluates tooling orders received from production engineering department to determine whether tooling should be manufactured in-house or procured from outside vendor.
* Examines blueprints to determine tool requirements and special materials or items to be ordered.
* Calculates and records tool requirement data on tooling order, and routes order to tool design or purchasing department.
* Prepares requisitions for items to be purchased.
* Contacts tool room, purchasing, receiving, or other personnel to follow up on procurement or production activities and to expedite movement of tools between departments or vendors.
* Maintains manual or computerized records of tooling procurement, status, and disposition information.
* Examines tools and tool records to determine disposition of tools.
* Processes requests for tool repair.
* May transport tooling between departments or vendors to expedite handling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of engineering, tool design, purchasing, and other departments, to facilitate production or procurement of tooling. Responsibilities include:
* Evaluates tooling orders received from production engineering department to determine whether tooling should be manufactured in-house or procured from outside vendor.
* Examines blueprints to determine tool requirements and special materials or items to be ordered.
* Calculates and records tool requirement data on tooling order, and routes order to tool design or purchasing department.
* Prepares requisitions for items to be purchased.
* Contacts tool room, purchasing, receiving, or other personnel to follow up on procurement or production activities and to expedite movement of tools between departments or vendors.
* Maintains manual or computerized records of tooling procurement, status, and disposition information.
* Examines tools and tool records to determine disposition of tools.
* Processes requests for tool repair.
* May transport tooling between departments or vendors to expedite handling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and arranges for cooperation with and participation in skill training program by private industry, agencies, and concerned individuals. Responsibilities include:
* Organizes and coordinates recruiting, training, and placement of participants.
* Contacts various service agencies on behalf of trainees with social problems and refers trainees to appropriate agencies to ensure trainees receive maximum available assistance.
* Prepares periodic reports to monitor and evaluate progress of program.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists legislator in preparation of proposed legislation. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts research into subject of proposed legislation and develops preliminary draft of bill.
* Analyzes pending legislation and suggests to legislator action to be taken.
* Briefs legislator on policy issues.
* Attends committee meetings and prepares reports of proceedings.
* Speaks with lobbyists, constituents, and members of press to gather and provide information on behalf of legislator.
* Analyzes voting records of other legislators and political activity in legislator home district to derive data for legislator consideration.
* Maintains liaison with government agencies affected by proposed or pending legislation.
* Assists in campaign activities and drafts speeches for legislator.
Industry:Professional careers
