Occuptional handbook 2007

Written in English — pages. Libraries near you: WorldCat. Net and Dictionary Paperback in English - 6th edition. Not in Library. The enhanced occupational outlook handbook , Jist Works. Places United States. Edition Description Job seekers, students, and others doing in-depth career research can access information on nearly 8, jobs in one current, convenient book.

Edition Notes "Based on data provided by the U. Department of Labor. Classifications Dewey Decimal Class Announcers present music, news, and sports and may provide commentary or interview guests. News analysts, reporters, and journalists keep the public updated about current events and noteworthy information. Editors plan, review, and revise content for publication. Technical writers prepare instruction manuals, how-to guides, journal articles, and other supporting documents to communicate complex and technical information more easily.

Writers and authors develop written content for various types of media. Interpreters and translators convert information from one language into another language. Broadcast, sound, and video technicians set up, operate, and maintain the electrical equipment for media programs. Photographers use their technical expertise, creativity, and composition skills to produce and preserve images. Film and video editors and camera operators manipulate moving images that entertain or inform an audience.

Chiropractors treat patients with health problems of the neuromusculoskeletal system, which includes nerves, bones, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Optometrists diagnose and treat visual problems and manage diseases, injuries, and other disorders of the eyes.

Pharmacists dispense prescription medications to patients and offer expertise in the safe use of prescriptions. Physicians and surgeons diagnose and treat injuries or illnesses and address health maintenance. Physician assistants practice medicine on teams with physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare workers.

Podiatrists provide medical and surgical care for people with foot, ankle, and lower leg problems. Registered nurses RNs provide and coordinate patient care and educate patients and the public about various health conditions.

Occupational therapists treat patients who have injuries, illnesses, or disabilities through the therapeutic use of everyday activities.

Physical therapists help injured or ill people improve movement and manage pain. Radiation therapists treat cancer and other diseases in patients by administering radiation treatments. Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based treatment programs for people with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Respiratory therapists care for patients who have trouble breathing—for example, from a chronic respiratory disease, such as asthma or emphysema. Speech-language pathologists assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in children and adults.

Veterinarians care for the health of animals and work to protect public health. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians collect samples and perform tests to analyze body fluids, tissue, and other substances. Dental hygienists examine patients for signs of oral diseases, such as gingivitis, and provide preventive care, including oral hygiene. Diagnostic medical sonographers and cardiovascular technologists and technicians, including vascular technologists operate special imaging equipment to create images or to conduct tests.

Nuclear medicine technologists prepare and administer radioactive drugs for imaging or treatment. Radiologic technologists perform diagnostic imaging examinations on patients. Emergency medical technicians EMTs and paramedics respond to emergency calls, performing medical services and transporting patients to medical facilities. Pharmacy technicians help pharmacists dispense prescription medication to customers or health professionals. Surgical technologists assist in surgical operations.

Medical records and health information specialists organize, manage, and code health information data. Opticians help fit eyeglasses and contact lenses, following prescriptions from ophthalmologists and optometrists. Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians collect data on and analyze many types of work environments and work procedures.

Athletic trainers specialize in preventing, diagnosing, and treating muscle and bone injuries and illnesses. Home health and personal care aides monitor the condition of people with disabilities or chronic illnesses and help them with daily living activities.

Nursing assistants provide basic care and help patients with activities of daily living. Orderlies transport patients and clean treatment areas. Psychiatric technicians and aides care for people who have mental illness and developmental disabilities. Occupational therapy assistants and aides help patients develop, recover, improve, as well as maintain the skills needed for daily living and working.

Physical therapist assistants and aides work under the direction and supervision of physical therapists. Massage therapists treat clients by using touch to manipulate the muscles and other soft tissues of the body.

Dental assistants provide patient care, take x rays, keep records, and schedule appointments. Medical assistants complete administrative and clinical tasks in hospitals, offices of physicians, and other healthcare facilities. Medical transcriptionists listen to voice recordings that physicians and other healthcare workers make and convert them into written reports.

Firefighters control and put out fires and respond to emergencies involving life, property, or the environment. Correctional officers oversee those who have been arrested and are awaiting trial or who have been sentenced to serve time in jail or prison.

Bailiffs are law enforcement officers who maintain safety and order in courtrooms. Police officers protect lives and property. Detectives and criminal investigators gather facts and collect evidence of possible crimes. Private detectives and investigators search for information about legal, financial, and personal matters.

Security guards and gambling surveillance officers patrol and protect property from illegal activity. Chefs and head cooks oversee the daily food preparation at restaurants and other places where food is served. Cooks prepare, season, and cook a wide range of foods. Food preparation workers perform many routine tasks under the direction of cooks, chefs, or food service managers. Bartenders mix drinks and serve them directly to customers or through wait staff. Food and beverage serving and related workers take and prepare orders, clear tables, and do other tasks associated with providing food and drink to customers.

Waiters and waitresses take orders and serve food and beverages to customers in dining establishments. Janitors and building cleaners keep many types of buildings clean, orderly, and in good condition.

Pest control workers remove unwanted pests that infest buildings and surrounding areas. Grounds maintenance workers ensure that the grounds of houses, businesses, and parks are attractive, orderly, and healthy. Animal care and service workers attend to or train animals. Gambling services workers serve customers in gambling establishments, such as casinos or racetracks.

Barbers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists provide haircutting, hairstyling, and a range of other beauty services. Manicurists and pedicurists clean, shape, and beautify fingernails and toenails. Flight attendants provide routine services and respond to emergencies to ensure the safety and comfort of airline passengers. Fitness trainers and instructors lead, instruct, and motivate individuals or groups in exercise activities. Recreation workers design and lead activities to help people stay active, improve fitness, and have fun.

Cashiers process payments from customers purchasing goods and services. Advertising sales agents sell advertising space to businesses and individuals. Insurance sales agents contact potential customers and sell one or more types of insurance. Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses, government agencies, and other organizations. Models pose for artists, photographers, and other clients to help advertise products.

Real estate brokers and sales agents help clients buy, sell, and rent properties. Sales engineers sell complex scientific and technological products or services to businesses. Bill and account collectors try to recover payment on overdue bills. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks produce financial records for organizations and check financial records for accuracy. Tellers are responsible for accurately processing routine transactions at a bank.

Customer service representatives interact with customers to handle complaints, process orders, and answer questions. Receptionists do tasks such as answering phones, receiving visitors, and providing information about their organization to the public. Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers, also called public safety telecommunicators, answer emergency and nonemergency calls. Postal service workers sell postal products and collect, sort, and deliver mail.

Secretaries and administrative assistants perform routine clerical and administrative duties. Desktop publishers use computer software to design page layouts for items that are printed or published online. Agricultural workers maintain crops and tend livestock.

Fishing and hunting workers catch and trap various types of animal life. Masonry workers use bricks, concrete and concrete blocks, and natural and manmade stones to build structures.

Carpenters construct, repair, and install building frameworks and structures made from wood and other materials. Flooring installers and tile and stone setters lay and finish carpet, wood, vinyl, tile, and other materials. Construction laborers and helpers perform many tasks that require physical labor on construction sites. Construction equipment operators drive, maneuver, or control the heavy machinery used to construct roads, buildings and other structures.

Drywall and ceiling tile installers hang wallboard and install ceiling tile inside buildings. Tapers prepare the wallboard for painting, using tape and other materials.

Glaziers install glass in windows, skylights, and other fixtures in buildings. Painters apply paint, stain, and coatings to walls and ceilings, buildings, large machinery and equipment, and bridges and other structures. Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters install and repair piping fixtures and systems. Roofers replace, repair, and install the roofs of buildings. Ironworkers install structural and reinforcing iron and steel to form and support buildings, bridges, and roads. Construction and building inspectors ensure that construction meets building codes and ordinances, zoning regulations, and contract specifications.

Elevator and escalator installers and repairers install, maintain, and fix elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and other lifts. Hazardous materials removal workers identify and dispose of harmful substances such as asbestos, lead, and radioactive waste. Automotive body and glass repairers restore, refinish, and replace vehicle bodies and frames, windshields, and window glass. Automotive service technicians and mechanics inspect, maintain, and repair cars and light trucks. Diesel service technicians and mechanics inspect, repair, and overhaul buses, trucks, or any vehicle with a diesel engine.

Small engine mechanics inspect, service, and repair motorized power equipment. General maintenance and repair workers fix and maintain machines, mechanical equipment, and buildings. Line installers and repairers install or repair electrical power systems and telecommunications cables, including fiber optics. Medical equipment repairers install, maintain, and repair patient care equipment.

Assemblers and fabricators build finished products and the parts that go into them. Bakers mix ingredients according to recipes in order to make breads, pastries, and other baked goods. Metal and plastic machine workers set up and operate machines that cut, shape, and form metal and plastic materials or pieces. Machinists and tool and die makers set up and operate machine tools to produce precision metal parts, instruments, and tools.

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers use hand-held or remotely controlled equipment to join, repair, or cut metal parts and products view profile ». Woodworkers manufacture a variety of products such as cabinets and furniture, using wood, veneers, and laminates. Stationary engineers and boiler operators control stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment.

Quality control inspectors examine products and materials for defects or deviations from specifications. Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers design, construct, adjust, repair, appraise and sell jewelry. Dental and ophthalmic laboratory technicians and medical appliance technicians construct, fit, or repair medical appliances and devices.

Airline and commercial pilots fly and navigate airplanes, helicopters, and other aircraft. Air traffic controllers coordinate the movement of aircraft to maintain safe distances between them. Passenger vehicle drivers operate buses, taxis, and other modes of transportation to take people from place to place. Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers transport goods from one location to another.

Railroad workers ensure that passenger and freight trains operate safely. They may drive trains, coordinate the activities of the trains, or control signals and switches in the rail yard.

Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. Material moving machine operators use equipment to transport objects. Hand laborers and material movers manually move freight, stock, or other materials. Buyers and purchasing agents buy products and services for organizations.

Purchasing managers oversee the work of buyers and purchasing agents. Agricultural engineers solve problems concerning power supplies, machine efficiency, the use of structures and facilities, pollution and environmental issues, and the storage and processing of agricultural products.

Health and safety engineers combine knowledge of engineering and of health and safety to develop procedures and design systems to protect people from illness and injury and property from damage. Aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians run and maintain equipment used to develop, test, produce, and sustain aircraft and spacecraft.

Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians help engineers design and develop equipment that is powered by electricity or electric current. Electro-mechanical and mechatronics technologists and technicians operate, test, and maintain electromechanical or robotic equipment.

Conservation scientists and foresters manage the overall land quality of forests, parks, rangelands, and other natural resources. Geographers study the Earth and the distribution of its land, features, and inhabitants. Historians research, analyze, interpret, and write about the past by studying historical documents and sources.

Agricultural and food science technicians assist agricultural and food scientists. Craft and fine artists use a variety of materials and techniques to create art for sale and exhibition. Orthotists and prosthetists design and fabricate medical supportive devices and measure and fit patients for them. Fire inspectors examine buildings in order to detect fire hazards and ensure that federal, state, and local fire codes are met.

Financial clerks do administrative work, help customers, and carry out transactions that involve money. Information clerks perform routine clerical duties, maintain records, collect data, and provide information to customers. Material recording clerks track product information in order to keep businesses and supply chains on schedule. General office clerks perform a variety of clerical tasks, including answering telephones, typing documents, and filing records.

Forest and conservation workers measure and improve the quality of forests. Logging workers harvest forests to provide the raw material for many consumer goods and industrial products.

Boilermakers assemble, install, maintain, and repair boilers, closed vats, and other large vessels or containers that hold liquids and gases. Sheet metal workers fabricate or install products that are made from thin metal sheets. Loading and moving machine operators, underground mining. Lodging managers.

Layout workers, metal and plastic. Interpreters and translators. Bridge and lock tenders. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators. Underground mining machine operators and extraction workers, all other. Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other. Civil engineering technologists and technicians. Morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers. Financial clerks, all other. Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers.

Tile and stone setters. Transportation security screeners. Tax preparers. Payroll and timekeeping clerks. Plasterers and stucco masons. Designers, all other. Loan officers. Conservation scientists. Railroad conductors and yardmasters. Model makers, wood. Calibration technologists and technicians and engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other. Social workers, all other. Continuous mining machine operators. First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers.

Property appraisers and assessors. Architectural and civil drafters. Judicial law clerks. Healthcare social workers. Rail car repairers. Radio, cellular, and tower equipment installers and repairers. Computer numerically controlled tool programmers. Eligibility interviewers, government programs. Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers. Service unit operators, oil and gas. Correctional officers and jailers.

Drywall and ceiling tile installers. Desktop publishers. Fire inspectors and investigators. Stationary engineers and boiler operators.

Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents. Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel.

Telecommunications line installers and repairers. Plant and system operators, all other. Flight attendants. Cardiovascular technologists and technicians. Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors. Legal support workers, all other. Property, real estate, and community association managers. Meter readers, utilities.

Agricultural and food science technicians. First-line supervisors of personal service and entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services. Community health workers. First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers.

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks. Parking enforcement workers. Dental laboratory technicians. Patternmakers, wood. Chemistry teachers, postsecondary. Speech-language pathologists. Recreational therapists. Farm labor contractors. Traffic technicians. Derrick operators, oil and gas. Crane and tower operators. Physical therapist assistants. Kindergarten teachers, except special education. Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators and locomotive firers.

Fish and game wardens. Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors. Painters, construction and maintenance. Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists. Computer numerically controlled tool operators. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. Financial examiners. Anthropologists and archeologists. Recreation and fitness studies teachers, postsecondary.

Audio and video technicians. Rail transportation workers, all other. First-line supervisors of correctional officers. Elementary school teachers, except special education. Roof bolters, mining. Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians. Drafters, all other. Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons. Tool and die makers. Model makers, metal and plastic. Commercial divers.

Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other. Information and record clerks, all other. Costume attendants. Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders. Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. Logging equipment operators. Mechanical door repairers. Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping. Zoologists and wildlife biologists.

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians. Cost estimators. Buyers and purchasing agents. Instructional coordinators.

Special education teachers, preschool. Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other. Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers.

Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers. Patternmakers, metal and plastic. Structural iron and steel workers. First-line supervisors of transportation and material-moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling supervisors. History teachers, postsecondary. Dental hygienists. Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels. Web developers and digital interface designers. Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders. Procurement clerks. Sailors and marine oilers.

Directors, religious activities and education. Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining. Hazardous materials removal workers. Watch and clock repairers. Automotive body and related repairers.

Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles. Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers. Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators. Cartographers and photogrammetrists. Aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians. Child, family, and school social workers.

Earth drillers, except oil and gas; and explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters. Mental health and substance abuse social workers. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses. Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers. Project management specialists and business operations specialists, all other. Special effects artists and animators. Postmasters and mail superintendents. Psychology teachers, postsecondary. Transportation inspectors. First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers.

Area, ethnic, and cultural studies teachers, postsecondary. Hearing aid specialists. Miscellaneous first-line supervisors, protective service workers.

Computer user support specialists. Paralegals and legal assistants. English language and literature teachers, postsecondary. Social sciences teachers, postsecondary, all other. Subway and streetcar operators. Social and community service managers. Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary. Legal secretaries and administrative assistants. Real estate sales agents. Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators. Education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare.

Social science research assistants. Dredge operators. Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers. First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers. Budget analysts. Nuclear medicine technologists.

Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists. Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators. Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers. Public safety telecommunicators. Motorboat mechanics and service technicians. Broadcast technicians. Foreign language and literature teachers, postsecondary. Orthotists and prosthetists. Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment.

First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers. News analysts, reporters, and journalists. Reinforcing iron and rebar workers. First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers. Maintenance workers, machinery. Postal service clerks. Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists. Exercise physiologists. Advertising sales agents. Brickmasons and blockmasons. Education teachers, postsecondary. Computer network support specialists. Insurance appraisers, auto damage.

Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. Massage therapists. Locksmiths and safe repairers. Cargo and freight agents. Tank car, truck, and ship loaders.

Museum technicians and conservators. Landscape architects. Lighting technicians and media and communication equipment workers, all other. Communications teachers, postsecondary. Developed by the U. Department of Labor Includes index Profiles ninety percent of the jobs in the economy, nearly in total, covering each one's nature, working conditions, required skills, training, advancement, outlook, earnings, and related occupations.

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