- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who organizes and leads groups, such as senior citizens, children, and street gangs, in activities that meet interests of individual members. Responsibilities include:
* Develops recreational, physical education, and cultural programs for various age groups.
* Demonstrates and instructs participants in activities, such as active sports, group dances and games, arts, crafts, and dramatics.
* Organizes current-events discussion groups, conducts consumer problem surveys, and performs similar activities to stimulate interest in civic responsibility.
* Promotes group work concept of enabling members to develop their own program activities through encouragement and leadership of membership discussions.
* Consults with other community resources regarding specific individuals, and makes referral when indicated.
* Keeps records.
* May recruit, train, and supervise paid staff and volunteers.
* Employed in settings, such as community center, neighborhood or settlement house, hospital, institution for children or aged, youth centers, and housing projects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and tests firearms, spent bullets, and related evidence in criminal cases to develop facts useful in apprehension and prosecution of suspects. Responsibilities include:
* Examines bullets, bullet fragments, cartridge clips, firearms, and related evidence found at scene of crime or in possession of suspect to identify make and caliber of weapon.
* Test-fires weapons allegedly used to facilitate microscopic comparison of bullets from test weapon with those discovered at scene of crime.
* Determines, from knowledge of ballistics theory and standard test procedures, probable angle and distance from which crime weapon was fired, revealing origin of shot.
* Prepares reports of findings and testifies at inquests, trials, and other hearings to facilitate prosecution or exoneration of suspects on basis of determinations.
* May perform standardized tests on other articles of evidence, using chemical agents, physical-testing equipment, measuring instruments, and prescribed procedure, to determine relationship of evidence to suspect and to crime.
* May order and maintain departmental weapons and related equipment.
* May be designated by rank as Lieutenant, Ballistics.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs prison rehabilitation programs and assignment of inmates under direction of director, institution. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and coordinates programs for providing educational, recreational, and spiritual services; supplying medical, dental, and psychiatric treatment; and meeting other needs of inmates in conformity with established policies of correctional institution.
* Administers and scores intelligence, aptitude, and other standard tests to evaluate inmates' suitability for rehabilitation.
* Reviews case reports of prisoners to recommend parole, vocational training, transfer, psychiatric treatment, custody status, or other disposition according to findings.
* Directs workers engaged in maintenance of inmate records.
* Confers with other members of prison staff to coordinate all program activities in conformity with prison routine and security requirements.
* Prepares and delivers speeches to promote understanding of prison services and characteristics of offenders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to print addresses, code numbers, and similar information on items, such as envelopes, accounting forms, packages, and advertising literature. Responsibilities include:
* Positions plates, stencils, or tapes in machine magazine and places articles to be addressed into loading rack.
* Starts machine that automatically feeds plates, stencils, or tapes through mechanism.
* Adjusts flow of ink and guides to fit size of paper and sets stops and selectors so that only certain plates will be printed, using wrench and pliers.
* Maintains plate file and operates embossing machine or typewriter to make corrections, additions, and changes on plates.
* May type statistical lists of plate files and correspondence concerning addressing jobs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs floor operations of brokerage firm engaged in buying and selling securities at exchange. Responsibilities include:
* Monitors order flow and transactions that brokerage firm executes on floor of exchange.
* Reviews reports of securities transactions and price lists, using computer, to analyze market conditions.
* Informs staff of changes affecting firm or exchange.
* Calculates profit made by firm and estimates business volume lost to competition.
* Develops plan to increase firm's market share of business.
* Negotiates business contracts with exchange officials, and represents firm by membership in various exchange committees.
* Interviews, selects, and hires employees, such as floor broker and clerical workers.
* Develops and implements plans to ensure compliance of workers with established programs and procedures.
* Conducts staff meetings to discuss changes in policy or to propose methods and procedures which could increase profit and trade volume.
* Monitors employee attendance and takes disciplinary action when regulations are violated.
* Evaluates employee job performance and promotes or terminates personnel.
* May place orders with independent trader when additional help is needed to fill orders for brokerage firm.
* May buy and sell securities on floor of exchange (floor broker).
* May specialize according to type of securities traded at exchange and be designated Manager, Commodity Exchange Floor; Manager, Options Exchange Floor; Manager, Stock Exchange Floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells parimutuel tickets to patrons at racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Reads entry sheets to ascertain entry number of specific horses in designated race and depresses corresponding numbered key of ticket-dispensing machine that automatically ejects ticket requested by patron.
* Accepts money and makes change.
* After start of race records totals of tickets sold and cash received and forwards to money room for counting and verification.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and records personal data about civilian workers, vendors, contractors, military personnel, and dependents of military personnel at defense installation and prepares badges, passes, and identification cards. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews applicants to obtain and verify information, such as name, date of birth, physical description, and type of security clearance held.
* Corresponds with law enforcement officials, previous employers, and other references to obtain applicant's social, moral, and political background for use by department in determining employment acceptability.
* Photographs new workers, using automatic identification camera.
* May fingerprint workers and keep other supplemental identification systems.
* May keep records of badges issued, lost, and reissued.
* May issue temporary identification badges to visitors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to intercept, locate, identify, and record radio transmissions of enemy or potential enemy. Responsibilities include:
* Tunes receiver over assigned frequency band.
* Obtains bearings on source of transmission, using electronic direction-finding equipment.
* Informs location plotters of bearings obtained to locate and identify station.
* Monitors stations, records intercepted transmissions, and forwards transcripts for decoding.
* May operate sound-recording equipment to preserve broadcast for analysis by other intelligence personnel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates radio and associated test equipment at aircraft factory radio station to transmit and receive information during flight testing and delivery of aircraft. Responsibilities include:
* Communicates with test pilot , engineering personnel, and others during flight testing to relay information.
* Observes aircraft prior to landing or takeoff and advises plane crew of observations.
* Maintains station log and other flight test records.
* May dispatch firetrucks, emergency equipment, and personnel during test flights.
* May operate radar and specialized test equipment during flight testing or preflight checkout to assist engineers in evaluating aircraft or equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following and similar clerical duties requiring limited knowledge of systems or procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Writes, types, or enters information into computer, using keyboard, to prepare correspondence, bills, statements, receipts, checks, or other documents, copying information from one record to another.
* Proofreads records or forms.
* Counts, weighs, or measures material.
* Sorts and files records.
* Receives money from customers and deposits money in bank.
* Addresses envelopes or packages by hand or with typewriter or addressograph machine.
* Stuffs envelopes by hand or with envelope stuffing machine.
* Answers telephone, conveys messages, and runs errands.
* Stamps, sorts, and distributes mail.
* Stamps or numbers forms by hand or machine.
* Photocopies documents, using photocopier.
Industry:Professional careers
