- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who sorts data, such as forms, correspondence, checks, receipts, bills, and sales tickets, into specified sequence or grouping, such as by address, code, quantity, and class, for such purposes as filing, mailing, copying, or preparing records. May be designated according to work performed as Bill Sorter; Sales-Slip Sorter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records brand marks used to identify cattle, produce, or other commodities, to facilitate identification. Responsibilities include:
* Receives applications for new brands and verifies against official brand records to prevent duplication.
* Records assignment or reassignment of brands beside name of appropriate individual or organization.
* Receives and records brand recording fees and submits brand certificates for approval.
* Keeps files of reports compiled by field inspectors to prevent frauds and unauthorized use of brands.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing customer bank statements for distribution, maintaining cancelled checks and customer signature files, and adjusting customer accounts. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates assignments of workers preparing bank statements for delivery, reconciling account differences, and filing checks.
* Writes letters and makes telephone calls to recover checks returned in error and to adjust customer accounts and complaints.
* Assists customers in establishing depository arrangements for large accounts.
* Accepts stop-payment orders and directs workers in flagging customer accounts to prevent withdrawal of uncollected portions of deposits, or to prevent payment of protested checks.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interviews and hires applicants for contingent (temporary and part-time) work and keeps employment records. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews applications and hires applicants.
* Notifies applicants by mail or telephone to report for work.
* Prepares and approves payroll vouchers.
* Keeps employment records.
* Compiles list of workers qualified for contingent employment.
* May schedule work assignments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates administration of city or county government in accordance with policies determined by city council or other authorized elected officials. Responsibilities include:
* Appoints department heads and staffs as provided by state laws or local ordinances.
* Supervises activities of departments performing functions such as collection and disbursement of taxes, law enforcement, maintenance of public health, construction of public works, and purchase of supplies and equipment.
* Prepares annual budget and submits estimates to authorized elected officials for approval.
* Plans for future development of urban and nonurban areas to provide for population growth and expansion of public services.
* May recommend zoning regulation controlling location and development of residential and commercial areas (urban planner).
* May perform duties of one or more city or county officials as designated by local laws.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who adds sales slips or register tapes, using electrically powered auditing machine. Computes subtotals for individual sales departments and types of sales, such as cash, charge, installment, and will-call. Verifies daily or periodic balances against predetermined figures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in providing financial services to customers, and assists in cash management activities. Responsibilities include:
* Trains new employees, prepares work schedules, and monitors work performance.
* Examines documents prepared by subordinates, such as savings bond applications and safe deposit vault entry and exit records, to ensure compliance with establishment policies and procedures.
* Monitors branch office operations to ensure that security procedures are being followed.
* Evaluates establishment procedures and recommends changes to manager, financial institution .
* Talks to customers to resolve account-related problems and to ensure positive public relations.
* Explains services to potential personal and business account customers to generate additional business for establishment.
* Assists workers to balance daily transactions, using calculator and computer terminal.
* Manages office in absence of manager, financial institution.
* May remove, count, and record cash from automated teller machine.
* May examine, evaluate, and process loan applications.
* May prepare, type, and maintain records of financial transactions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers operating computers and peripheral equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns staff and schedules work to facilitate production.
* Directs training or trains workers to operate computer and peripheral equipment.
* Confers with programmers and operates computer to test new and modified programs.
* Directs operation of computer to execute program, and observes operation to detect error or failure in progress of program.
* Reads monitor and enters commands to help computer operators identify and correct errors.
* Revises input data and program to continue operation of program, using computer terminal.
* Notifies programming and maintenance personnel if unable to locate and correct cause of processing error or failure.
* Revises operation schedule to adjust for delays, or notifies scheduling workers of need to adjust schedule.
* Prepares or reviews production, operating, and down time records and reports.
* Recommends changes in programs, routines, and quality control standards to improve computer operating efficiency.
* Consults with supervisor about problems, such as equipment performance, output quality, and maintenance schedule.
* Coordinates flow of work between shifts to ensure continuity.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles production or sales cost reports on unit or total basis for department or working unit. Responsibilities include:
* Calculates individual items, such as labor, material, and time costs, relationship of sales or revenues to cost, and overhead expenditures, using calculating machine.
* Examines records, such as time and production sheets, payrolls, operations charts and schedules, to obtain data for calculations.
* Prepares reports showing total cost, selling prices, or rates profits.
* May be designated according to work performed as Cost-Estimating Clerk; Operating-Cost Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who audits time and material charges on work orders for construction, maintenance, and operation of electric-power distribution lines. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews construction sketches and bills of materials at time work order is issued to ensure accurate listings of material quantities and assignment of accounting classifications.
* Audits chargeouts and return of materials from storeroom and time and material reports from construction crew to ensure accurate accounting of materials issued, used, or returned to storeroom.
* Summarizes charges and returns upon completion of job, using adding machine and calculator, and compares with construction sketch and bill of materials to detect differences between actual and estimated charges.
* May maintain field construction files.
Industry:Professional careers
