- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who examines vouchers forwarded to insurance carrier by doctors who have made medical examinations of insurance applicants, and approves vouchers for payment, based on standard rates. Computes fees for multiple examinations, using adding machine. Notes fee on form and forwards forms and vouchers to appropriate personnel for further approval and payment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who registers visitors to public facilities, such as national or state parks, military bases, and monuments. Responsibilities include:
* Stops vehicles and pedestrians at gate and records name, nationality, home address, license plate number of vehicle, and time of entrance and departure.
* Cautions visitors about fires, wild animals, travel hazards, and domestic pets and informs them of laws and regulations pertaining to area.
* May issue information leaflets.
* May collect fees and issue entry and fire permits.
* May give talks describing historical, natural, or scenic points of area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who approves or denies mortgage loans, following mortgage standards. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews and evaluates information on mortgage loan documents to determine if buyer, property, and loan conditions meet establishment and government standards.
* Evaluates acceptability of loan to corporations that buy real estate loans on secondary mortgage markets, where existing mortgages are bought and sold by investors.
* Approves or rejects loan application, or requests additional information.
* Records loan rejection specifying investor and institution guidelines and basis for declining application, such as insufficient cash reserves.
* Assembles documents in loan file, including acceptance or denial, and returns file to originating mortgage loan office.
* May be authorized by federal agency to certify that mortgage loan applicant and property qualify for mortgage insurance endorsement from federal government and be designated Underwriter, Direct Endorsement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide $T3captions$T1 of live television broadcast for hearing-impaired viewers. Responsibilities include:
* Discusses program or news story content with broadcast's producer to learn new words and terms which are not included in computer's stenographic glossary.
* Devises stenographic equivalents of new words or terms and adds them to stenographic glossary.
* Reviews glossary items before broadcast for words and terms that are likely to be used on-air.
* Listens to live program dialogue and types stenographic equivalents for words and phrases to provide on-screen captions.
* May type captions for movie or taped television program (caption writer ).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs land and leasing department of petroleum company to secure leases, options, rights-of-way, and special agreements covering land and mineral rights for drilling wells and producing gas and oil. Responsibilities include:
* Studies leases bought, prices paid, and other negotiations of competing companies in specified areas and determines expenditure necessary to obtain leases and other contracts in those areas.
* Determines and specifies date of termination of lease rentals.
* Negotiates with brokers or other individuals to sell interests in leases owned.
* Executes general policies established by company officials.
* May make final decisions on and sign agreements and contracts for purchase, sale and acquisition of land leases, mineral and royalty rights.
* May be designated according to area of operations as Manager, Divisional Leasing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of money-room workers engaged in keeping account of money wagered on each race at racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Keeps continuous balance sheet of cash transactions and verifies with cash on hand.
* Requisitions additional cash as needed.
* Determines workers needed each day and assigns their duties.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles, posts, and retrieves credit information, using computer, and reports credit information to subscribers of credit reporting agency. Responsibilities include:
* Answers requests received by computer modem, mail, or telephone from subscribers for information about credit applicants.
* Identifies caller by code.
* Enters inquiry into computer to retrieve requested information.
* Transmits information to subscriber, using computer and modem, reads information to subscriber over telephone, or generates printout for mailing to subscriber.
* Compiles and enters credit information into computer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who researches, develops, designs, and tests electronic components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, medical, military, and scientific applications, applying principles and techniques of electronic engineering. Responsibilities include:
* Designs electronic circuits, components and integrated systems, utilizing ferroelectric, nonlinear, dielectric, phosphorescent, photo-conductive, and thermoelectric properties of materials (design engineer, products master title).
* Designs test control apparatus and equipment, determines procedures for testing products (test engineer master title), and directs engineering personnel in fabrication of test control apparatus and equipment.
* Develops new applications of conductive properties of metallic and nonmetallic materials used in components, and in application of components to products or systems.
* May direct field operations and maintenance of electronic installations.
* May evaluate operational systems and recommend design modifications to eliminate causes of malfunctions or changes in system requirements.
* May specialize in development of electronic principles and technology in fields, such as telecommunications, telemetry, aerospace guidance, missile propulsion control, counter-measures, acoustics, nucleonic instrumentation, industrial controls and measurements, high-frequency heating, computers, radiation detection, encephalography, electron optics, and biomedical research.
* May use computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reads items listed on order sheets to laborer, stores who gathers and assembles items or to billing typist who prepares bills for items. Indicates on order sheets items located and items that are not available. May read items to checker i who examines articles prior to shipping. May be designated by kind of data called out to other worker as Weight Caller; Yardage Caller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reviews and posts data from meter books, computes charges for utility services, and marks special accounts for billing purposes. Responsibilities include:
* Marks accounts with fixed demands, combined bills for more than one meter connection, and those requiring use of constant multipliers to extend meter reading to actual consumption.
* Posts late and special meter readings and estimated readings.
* Examines meter-reading entries for evidence of irregular conditions, such as defective meters or use of service without contract, and prepares forms for corrective actions by others.
* Marks accounts for no bill when irregular conditions cannot be resolved before billing date.
Industry:Professional careers
