- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who directs activities of organization to coordinate functions of various community health and welfare programs. Responsibilities include:
* Organizes and develops planning program to ascertain community requirements and problems in specific fields of welfare work, and to determine agency responsibility for administering program.
* Surveys functions of member agencies to avoid duplication of efforts and recommends curtailment, extension, modification, or initiation of services.
* Advises health and welfare agencies in planning and providing services based on community surveys and analyses.
* Reviews estimated budgets of member agencies.
* Prepares and releases reports, studies, and publications to promote public understanding of and support for community programs.
* May recruit and train volunteer workers.
* May organize and direct campaign for solicitation of funds.
* May visit agency sites to evaluate effectiveness of services provided.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and maintains records of business transactions and office activities of establishment, performing variety of following or similar clerical duties and utilizing knowledge of systems or procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Copies data and compiles records and reports.
* Tabulates and posts data in record books.
* Computes wages, taxes, premiums, commissions, and payments.
* Records orders for merchandise or service.
* Gives information to and interviews customers, claimants, employees, and sales personnel.
* Receives, counts, and pays out cash.
* Prepares, issues, and sends out receipts, bills, policies, invoices, statements, and checks.
* Prepares stock inventory.
* Adjusts complaints.
* Operates office machines, such as typewriter, adding, calculating, and duplicating machines.
* Opens and routes incoming mail, answers correspondence, and prepares outgoing mail.
* May take dictation.
* May greet and assist visitors.
* May prepare payroll.
* May keep books.
* May purchase supplies.
* May operate computer terminal to input and retrieve data.
* May be designated according to field of activity or according to location of employment as Adjustment Clerk; Airport Clerk; Colliery Clerk; Death-Claim Clerk; Field Clerk.
* May be designated.
* Responsibilities include:
* Agency Clerk; Auction Clerk; Construction-Records Clerk; Shop Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interviews applicants or recipients to determine eligibility for public assistance. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets and explains rules and regulations governing eligibility and grants, methods of payment, and legal rights to applicant or recipient.
* Records and evaluates personal and financial data obtained from applicant or recipient to determine initial or continuing eligibility, according to departmental directives.
* Initiates procedures to grant, modify, deny, or terminate eligibility and grants for various aid programs, such as public welfare, employment, and medical assistance.
* Authorizes amount of grants, based on determination of eligibility for amount of money payments, food stamps, medical care, or other general assistance.
* Identifies need for social services, and makes referrals to various agencies and community resources available.
* Prepares regular and special reports as required, and submits individual recommendations for consideration by supervisor.
* Prepares and keeps records of assigned cases.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cashes winning tickets in bookmaking establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Records on sheets final odds on winning horses as odds are received at bookmaking establishment.
* Computes winnings due and pays bettors.
* Balances cash disbursed against total of winning tickets.
* Computes total monies received for tickets sold on each race.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles attendance records for school district, issues attendance permits, and answers inquiries. Responsibilities include:
* Obtains district attendance figures from each school daily, using telephone.
* Records figures by grade level and for special classes, such as mentally retarded or gifted, in workbook.
* Totals figures, using calculator.
* Collates data and prepares standard state reports, using typewriter.
* Computes average daily attendance figures and forwards to state for compensation and to school cafeteria for meal planning.
* Interviews applicants for interdistrict attendance permits to attend elementary and secondary schools in district and issues permits, if requirements are met.
* Sends copy of permit to applicable school and retains file copy.
* Maintains file of interdistrict attendance agreements, bills outside districts for attendance within district, and notifies supervisor of agreement expirations.
* Answers inquiries from parents and school officials, using state education code as guide.
* Prepares special reports, such as ethnic or racial-distribution surveys, requested by state or district education officials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of workers engaged in selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. Responsibilities include:
* Estimates and orders foodstuffs, liquors, wines, or other beverages, and supplies.
* Interviews, hires, trains, and discharges workers.
* Adjusts customer's complaints concerning service, food, and beverages.
* Inspects establishment and observes workers and patrons to ensure compliance with occupational, health, and safety standards and local liquor regulations.
* May plan and arrange promotional programs and advertisement.
* May hire entertainers.
* May be designated according to kind of establishment managed as Manager, Beer Parlor; Manager, Cocktail Lounge; Manager, Night Club; Manager, Tavern.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes, records, and pays dividends to customers of brokerage firm. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews stock records and reports to determine customer stock ownership on record date.
* Totals stock owned by customers and computes dividends due, using calculator.
* Records dividends due, and enters information into customer accounts, using computer.
* Reviews customer accounts to obtain dividend payment instructions, and pays dividends and interest due to customers.
* Solves dividend related problems with customer accounts, applying knowledge of policies and procedures concerning payment of dividends and interest.
* May perform other clerical tasks such as filing, typing, and operating office machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who originates, controls, and develops flotation, smelting, electrolytic, and other processes used in winning metals from their ores, for producing iron and steel, or for refining gold, silver, zinc, copper, and other metals. Responsibilities include:
* Studies ore reduction problems to determine most efficient methods of producing metals commercially.
* Controls temperature adjustments, charge mixtures, and other variables in blast-furnace operations and steel-melting furnaces to obtain pig iron and steel of specified metallurgical characteristics and qualities.
* Investigates methods of improving metallurgical processes, as in the reduction of alumina by electrolytic methods to produce aluminum, the distillation of molten ore to purify zinc, or selective oxidation methods to extract lead, nickel, mercury, and other nonferrous metals from their ores.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that pulverizes scrap fabric into flock (powder). Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts wire from bale of scrap, using wirecutters.
* Starts machine and dumps and spreads scrap on conveyor that moves scrap to rotary knives turning within fixed knives that pulverize scrap.
* Clamps sack over blower pipe and opens valve to fill sack with flock.
* Pushes plunger that forces pneumatic tamper into sack to compress flock.
* Closes top and sews filled sack, using needle and twine.
* Weighs filled sack and records weight on production record and tag.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vats and filter presses to bleach wax used in candlemaking. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures and dumps specified chemicals and wax into vats and turns thermostat knob to prescribed temperature to liquefy wax.
* Packs granulated charcoal on sides of filter press and starts pump to circulate molten wax through press.
* Stops pump after specified time and drains sample for laboratory analysis.
* Turns valves or starts pumps to transfer wax from press to tanks.
* Records types and quantities of wax used.
Industry:Professional careers
