Education:
31%
Some College Courses
30%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
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Begin The Career Assessment TestOperate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter's wheel to process clay in manufacture of ceramic, pottery and stoneware products.
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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91% | Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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86% | 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. | |
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83% | Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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81% | Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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81% | Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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80% | Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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78% | Innovation  -  Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. | |
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77% | Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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72% | Analytical Thinking  -  Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
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71% | Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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95% | 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. |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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75% | 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. | |
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72% | 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. | |
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72% | 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. | |
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66% | Visualization  -  The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |
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66% | Control Precision  -  The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |
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66% | Near Vision  -  The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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89% | Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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87% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls  -  How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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85% | Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? | |
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83% | Deal With External Customers  -  How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? | |
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82% | Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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79% | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results  -  What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? | |
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79% | Exposed to Contaminants  -  How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? | |
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75% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions  -  How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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74% | Frequency of Decision Making  -  How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? | |
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72% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks  -  How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? | |
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71% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate  -  How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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70% | Electronic Mail  -  How often do you use electronic mail in this job? | |
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69% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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67% | Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
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65% | Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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84% | Handling and Moving Objects  -  Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. | |
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78% | Thinking Creatively  -  Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. | |
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76% | Controlling Machines and Processes  -  Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). | |
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73% | Performing General Physical Activities  -  Performing physical 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. | |
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68% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials  -  Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |