- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who serves court orders and processes, such as summonses and subpoenas. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives papers to be served from magistrate, court clerk, or attorney.
* Locates person to be served, using telephone directories, state, county, and city records, or public utility records, and delivers document.
* Records time and place of delivery.
* May deliver general messages and documents between courts and attorneys.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles information and records to prepare purchase orders for procurement of material for industrial firm, governmental agency, or other establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.
* Searches inventory records or warehouse to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.
* Consults catalogs and interviews suppliers to obtain prices and specifications.
* Types or writes invitation-of-bid forms and mails forms to supplier firms or for public posting.
* Writes or types purchase order and sends copy to supplier and department originating request.
* Compiles records of items purchased or transferred between departments, prices, deliveries, and inventories.
* Computes total cost of items purchased, using calculator.
* Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
* May compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates and award contract to bidders or place orders with suppliers or mail order firms.
* May verify bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approve bills for payment.
* May classify priority regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties in classroom to assist teaching staff of public or private elementary or secondary school. Respnsibilities include:
* Takes attendance.
* Grades homework and tests, using answer sheets, and records results.
* Distributes teaching materials to students, such as textbooks, workbooks, or paper and pencils.
* Maintains order within school and on school grounds.
* Operates learning aids, such as film and slide projectors and tape recorders.
* Prepares requisitions for library materials and stockroom supplies.
* Types material and operates duplicating equipment to reproduce instructional materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties in classroom to assist teaching staff of public or private elementary or secondary school. Respnsibilities include:
* Takes attendance.
* Grades homework and tests, using answer sheets, and records results.
* Distributes teaching materials to students, such as textbooks, workbooks, or paper and pencils.
* Maintains order within school and on school grounds.
* Operates learning aids, such as film and slide projectors and tape recorders.
* Prepares requisitions for library materials and stockroom supplies.
* Types material and operates duplicating equipment to reproduce instructional materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists park ranger or park superintendent in operation of state or national park, monument, historic site, or recreational area through performance of any combination of clerical and other duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Greets visitors at facility entrance and explains regulations.
* Assigns campground or recreational vehicle sites, and collects fees at park offering camping facilities.
* Monitors campgrounds, cautions visitors against infractions of rules, and notifies park ranger of problems.
* Replenishes firewood, and assists in maintaining camping and recreational areas in clean and orderly condition.
* Conducts tours of premises and answers visitors' questions when stationed at historic park, site, or monument.
* Operates projection and sound equipment and assists park ranger in presentation of interpretive programs.
* Provides simple first-aid treatment to visitors injured on premises and assists persons with more serious injuries to obtain appropriate medical care.
* Participates in carrying out fire-fighting or conservation activities.
* Assists other workers in activities concerned with restoration of buildings and other facilities or excavation and preservation of artifacts when stationed at historic or archeological site.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who monitors training programs transmitted by communication satellite from institution of higher learning to remote educational institution or facility. Respnsibilities include:
* Registers students for satellite communication courses and sells and distributes textbooks and other classroom materials.
* Activates audiovisual receiver and monitors classroom viewing of live or recorded courses transmitted by communication satellite.
* Stimulates classroom discussion immediately after broadcast, following standardized format.
* Monitors live seminar transmittals from institute of higher learning, elicits responses from classroom students, and consolidates and transmits students' questions by teletype or telephone to seminar participants for direct response via satellite.
* Distributes homework assignments and test blanks to students.
* Collects completed assignments and tests and mails them to institute of higher learning.
* Maintains class attendance records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who monitors training programs transmitted by communication satellite from institution of higher learning to remote educational institution or facility. Respnsibilities include:
* Registers students for satellite communication courses and sells and distributes textbooks and other classroom materials.
* Activates audiovisual receiver and monitors classroom viewing of live or recorded courses transmitted by communication satellite.
* Stimulates classroom discussion immediately after broadcast, following standardized format.
* Monitors live seminar transmittals from institute of higher learning, elicits responses from classroom students, and consolidates and transmits students' questions by teletype or telephone to seminar participants for direct response via satellite.
* Distributes homework assignments and test blanks to students.
* Collects completed assignments and tests and mails them to institute of higher learning.
* Maintains class attendance records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who monitors radio and television programs to detect contract violations with advertisers and program producers and violations of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations and to detect audio and video irregularities. Respnsibilities include:
* Times program elements, such as commercials, public service announcements, and news bulletins, using stopwatch.
* Observes and listens to programs to determine if FCC regulations and contract provisions with advertisers and program producers have been violated and whether quality of broadcast conforms to station and FCC standards.
* Logs length, type, and time of irregularities.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects and organizes intelligence information from various established sources for production of intelligence documents. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews data to ascertain accuracy of data and reliability of sources.
* Compiles intelligence information and disseminates data through media, such as situation maps, charts, briefings, reports, and publications.
* Maintains intelligence libraries.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who traces animal genealogy to certify or establish individual pedigree.
* Consults charts, books, and breeding records to ascertain lineage, names, ownerships, and show or racing performance records of ancestors.
* Records data and issues certificates.
Industry:Professional careers
