- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who assists auctioneer at auction by tagging and arranging articles for sale, calling out lot and item numbers, and holding or displaying articles being auctioned. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives and stores incoming merchandise to be auctioned.
* Writes assigned record numbers on tags and wires tags to articles.
* Arranges articles into group lots, according to similarity of type of merchandise, such as household goods, art objects, jewelry, and furniture.
* Assigns lot and item numbers to grouped articles and records numbers on tags and in record book.
* Calls out lot and item numbers of article being auctioned and holds or otherwise displays article during bidding.
* Assists final bidders in locating purchased items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in renting and maintaining safe-deposit boxes. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns controls to set vault clock for reopening.
* Authorizes forcing, servicing, and repair of safe-deposit box locks.
* Approves or disapproves rentals and requests for admittance to safe-deposit boxes in accordance with bank regulations.
* Develops, implements, and evaluates improved procedures for safe deposit operations.
* Monitors prices charged by competitors, recommends rental fees for safe-deposit boxes, and develops marketing plan to advertise safe-deposit services.
* Prepares cost, expense, and budget reports.
* Keeps departmental records.
* Trains and assigns duties to new employees.
* May open and close vault.
* May admit customer to vault.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in renting and maintaining safe-deposit boxes. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns controls to set vault clock for reopening.
* Authorizes forcing, servicing, and repair of safe-deposit box locks.
* Approves or disapproves rentals and requests for admittance to safe-deposit boxes in accordance with bank regulations.
* Develops, implements, and evaluates improved procedures for safe deposit operations.
* Monitors prices charged by competitors, recommends rental fees for safe-deposit boxes, and develops marketing plan to advertise safe-deposit services.
* Prepares cost, expense, and budget reports.
* Keeps departmental records.
* Trains and assigns duties to new employees.
* May open and close vault.
* May admit customer to vault.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents formal clothes or costumes to customers. Respnsibilities include:
* Talks to customer to determine clothing needs, date needed, quantity, style, color, and size.
* Shows customers available or appropriate garments.
* Explains rental fee to customer.
* Orders or reserves garment selected.
* Packages garments selected with complimentary accessories, such as cuff links, cummerbunds, neckties, and studs, and places in protective bag or box.
* Obtains suitable identification and deposit as security from customer.
* Computes rental charge and tax and prepares bill for customer.
* Collects money from customer or charges bill on customer's credit card.
* Examines garments for damages, and designates garments for cleaning or repair.
* May mark garments on customer for alteration.
* May sew buttons, hooks, hems, snaps, tears, or make minor alterations, by hand or using sewing machine.
* May mail or deliver rented garments to customer.
* May mail advertising material to customers.
* May return cleaned or repaired garments to stock.
* May be designated according to type of garments rented as Costume-Rental Clerk; Formal-Wear-Rental Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents tools and equipment to customers. Respnsibilities include:
* Suggests tools or equipment, based on work to be done.
* Prepares rental form and quotes rental rates to customer.
* Starts power equipment to ensure performance prior to issuance to customer.
* Computes rental fee based on hourly or daily rate.
* Cleans, lubricates, and adjusts power tools and equipment.
* May drive truck or use handtruck to deliver tools or equipment to customer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents tools and equipment to customers. Respnsibilities include:
* Suggests tools or equipment, based on work to be done.
* Prepares rental form and quotes rental rates to customer.
* Starts power equipment to ensure performance prior to issuance to customer.
* Computes rental fee based on hourly or daily rate.
* Cleans, lubricates, and adjusts power tools and equipment.
* May drive truck or use handtruck to deliver tools or equipment to customer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents furniture and accessories to customers. Respnsibilities include:
* Talks to customer to determine furniture preferences and requirements.
* Guides or accompanies customer through showroom, answers questions, and advises customer on compatibility of various styles and colors of furniture items.
* Compiles list of customer-selected items.
* Computes rental fee, explains rental terms, and presents list to customer for approval.
* Prepares order form and lease agreement, explains terms of lease to customer, and obtains customer signature.
* Obtains credit information from customer.
* Forwards forms to credit office for verification of customer credit status and approval of order.
* Collects initial payment from customer.
* Contacts customers to encourage followup transactions.
* May visit commercial customer site to solicit rental contracts, or review floor plans of new construction and suggest suitable furnishings.
* May sell furniture or accessories.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who charters or rents airplanes to licensed pilots, licensed flight instructors, or charters aircraft to passenger-customers with company pilot. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines purpose, destination, dates and time of flight, and number of passengers to select appropriate airplane for charter.
* Examines pilot's license to assure customer is qualified to pilot aircraft or is qualified to train students, or notifies company pilot of requested flight.
* Prepares rental or charter forms and secures customer's signature.
* Reserves airplane and records flight information in logbook.
* Informs other workers to fuel, clean, and move airplane to flight line.
* Computes customer's charges based on hours flown and company rate schedule.
* Receives payment or records credit charges.
* Prepares monthly bills.
* Requisitions and keeps records of office and airplane supplies.
* May inspect airplanes periodically to check if they are properly cleaned and serviced.
* May file flight plans with airport traffic controller.
* May provide pilots with weather forecasts and airplane specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents baby strollers and wheelchairs in shopping or recreation and amusement areas. Respnsibilities include:
* Explains rental terms to customers.
* Unfolds or pushes stroller or wheelchair from storage area.
* Explains to customers how to use stroller or wheelchair.
* Accepts cash, driver's license, or credit cards as deposit for stroller or wheelchair.
* Accepts rental fee and makes change.
* Occasionally cleans strollers and wheelchairs and inspects for damage.
* May adjust parts of strollers or wheelchairs to correct defect, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents films and audio-visual equipment to individuals and organizations, such as schools, churches, clubs, and business firms. Respnsibilities include:
* Views incoming films to familiarize self with content.
* Recommends films on specific subjects to show to designated group, utilizing knowledge of film content, availability of film, and rental charge.
* Determines and quotes rental charges for film, depending on purpose for showing film, number of times to be shown, and size of audience.
* Writes orders, listing shipping date, show date, and method of shipping film.
* Posts film rental dates on office records to complete reservation.
* May write or type correspondence, invoices, and shipping labels.
* May visit prospective or current customers to sell film-rental and audio-visual-equipment-renting service.
Industry:Professional careers
