- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who sifts residue from tablet processing machines to salvage usable tablets and powder for reprocessing. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects sieve according to size tablet being processed.
* Dumps residue from pail into sieve and picks out foreign matter and usable tablets.
* Places tablets in container and discards foreign matter.
* Shakes sieve to sift powder onto paper and pours powder into container.
* Weighs residue and records weight and identifying information on worksheet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of workers aboard ship concerned with shipboard business functions and social activities for passengers. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares shipping articles and signs on crew.
* Maintains payroll records and pays off crews at completion of voyage.
* Submits passenger and crew sailing lists to governmental agencies as required by regulations.
* Assists passengers in preparing declarations for customs, arranging for inspections of horticultural items being brought into country, and inspection of documents by immigration authorities.
* Prepares ship's entrance and clearance papers for foreign ports, and ship's cargo manifests when discharging cargo.
* Supervises stowage, care, and removal of hold baggage.
* Arranges for travel and scenic tours at ports of call.
* Provides banking services and safekeeping of valuables for passengers.
* Supervises preparing, editing, printing, and distribution of ship's daily newspaper.
* Plans and conducts games, tournaments, and parties for passengers' enjoyment.
* May conduct religious services.
* May provide first aid for passengers and crew.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages business operations and directs personal service functions of barber or beauty shop. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with employees to ensure quality services for patrons, such as haircuts, facials, hair styling, shaves, massages, shampoos, and manicures.
* Makes appointments and assigns patrons to barbers or cosmetologist to maintain uniform employee schedules.
* Adjusts customer complaints and promotes new business by expressing personal interest in efficient service for patrons.
* Directs sanitary maintenance of shop in compliance with health regulations and requires cleanliness, neatness, and courtesy of employees.
* Negotiates leases and orders equipment and supplies.
* Keeps accounts of receipts and expenditures and makes up payroll.
* Performs services of barber or cosmetologist in addition to management functions.
* May supervise on-the-job training and school attendance of apprentice.
* May train apprentice and master barbers.
* May supervise manicurist; shoe shiner and other workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reviews computer input and output documents to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to establishment standards. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews documents, such as surveys, to ensure completeness and appropriateness prior to data entry.
* Reads notes and instructions written on source documents and compares information with printouts to detect errors and ensure completeness and conformity with establishment policies and procedures.
* Notifies supervisor when errors and shortage of output are detected, and corrects errors or refers work to other workers for correction.
* Compares corrected input and output data with source documents, worksheets, and data displayed on screen of computer terminal to verify corrections.
* May review only computer input or output.
* May operate machines to separate and remove carbon paper from computer generated forms.
* May re-type mutilated forms, using typewriter.
* May sort printouts for distribution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives funds from customers and employees, disburses funds, and records monetary transactions in business establishment or place of public accommodation. Responsibilities include:
* Receives cash or checks or completes credit-card charge transactions.
* Counts money to verify amounts and issues receipts for funds received.
* Issues change and cashes checks.
* Compares totals on cash register with amount of currency in register to verify balances.
* Endorses checks and lists and totals cash and checks for bank deposit.
* Prepares bank deposit slips.
* Withdraws cash from bank accounts and keeps custody of cash fund.
* Disburses cash and writes vouchers and checks in payment of company expenditures.
* Posts data and balances accounts.
* Compiles collection, disbursement, and bank-reconciliation reports.
* Operates office machines, such as typewriter, computer terminal, and adding, calculating, bookkeeping, and check-writing machines.
* May authorize various plant expenditures and purchases.
* May prepare payroll and paychecks.
* May issue itemized statement to customer.
* May be designated according to specialization as Agency Cashier; Cashier, Front Office.
* When disbursing money in payment of wages, materials, taxes, plant maintenance, and other company expenses, is designated Disbursement Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities concerned with buying or selling investment products and financial services, such as securities, insurance, and real estate, for clients of brokerage firm. Responsibilities include:
* Screens, selects, and hires registered representatives and other employees.
* Directs inservice training to improve client services and increase sales volume.
* Develops and implements plans to ensure compliance of workers with established programs, procedures, and practices.
* Establishes internal control procedures to control margin accounts, short sales, and options and to reduce office errors and client complaints.
* Reviews recapitulation of daily transactions to ensure accordance with rules and regulations of government agencies, regulatory bodies, and securities exchanges.
* Analyzes operations to determine areas where cost reductions could be implemented or program improvements initiated.
* Evaluates profitability of gross sales and transactions.
* Conducts staff meetings of personnel to discuss changes in policy, redirection of sales emphasis to other programs, or to propose methods and procedures to increase firm's share of local market and trade volume.
* Explains firm's research and customer service facilities and how use of facilities can promote customer relations and sales.
* Prepares activity reports for evaluation by management.
* May be required to have securities agent license.
* May be required to have experience in certain type of brokerage office managed, such as full-service brokerage office, discount brokerage office, or full-service/discount brokerage office.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cashes checks, prepares money orders, receives payment for utilities bills, and collects and records fees charged for check-cashing service. May receive payment and issue receipts for such items as license plates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drafts detailed drawings of machinery and mechanical devices, indicating dimensions and tolerances, fasteners and joining requirements, and other engineering data. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews rough sketches and engineering specifications received from engineer or architect.
* Drafts multiple-view assembly, subassembly, and layout drawings as required for manufacture and repair of machines and equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under drafter master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who counts number of words in telegrams dispatched from telegraph office, consults rates in rate book, and marks charges on duplicates of messages for use in billing customers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in receiving and paying out money and keeping records of transactions in banks and similar financial institutions. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns duties and work schedules to workers to ensure efficient functioning of department.
* Trains employees in customer service and banking procedures.
* Approves checks for payment.
* Adjusts customer complaints.
* Examines tellers' reports of daily transactions for accuracy.
* Consolidates and balances daily transactions, using adding machine and computer.
* Ensures supply of money for financial institution's needs based on legal requirements and business demand.
* May allow customers access to safe deposit boxes, following specified procedures.
* May monitor and review financial institution's security procedures and control access to vault.
* May count and record currency and coin in vault.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
