- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who negotiates permits with property owners to allow prospecting, surveying, and testing for petroleum and gas deposits. Responsibilities include:
* Searches public records to determine legal ownerships of proposed exploration sites.
* Precedes prospecting party to area and interviews local authorities and landowners to determine legal and highway regulations and to draw up trespass agreements.
* Draws sketches of prospecting locations and terrain to be traversed.
* Drives stakes in ground to indicate locations of shot holes and recording instruments for use in surveying land and conducting seismic, magnetic, and gravity tests.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers educational and job training programs for veterans of armed services, as established by government regulations, and directs activities of field representatives. Responsibilities include:
* Develops and presents reports concerning activities, expenses, budget, new or revised government statutes and rulings, and other items affecting program.
* Evaluates curriculums, and reviews and approves or rejects applications of schools, establishments, or individuals offering educational or training facilities.
* Determines eligibility of veterans to receive education or training.
* Confers with government agencies on problems and other matters relating to program.
* Interprets regulatory or administrative decisions to execute legal requirements, establishes guides for making decisions in field, and assigns work load to subordinates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who advises and aids veterans or dependents in presenting disability, insurance, or pension claims for benefits under federal, state, or local laws. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews legislation, regulations, and precedents and studies veteran's medical report and service history to evaluate and determine validity of claim.
* Obtains claimant's power of attorney.
* Prepares claim forms and briefs and assembles pertinent evidence.
* Requests hearing before government board and presents brief.
* Reviews board decision for grounds for appeal.
* Advises veteran on insurance, vocational, and other matters, working in cooperation with Veterans Administration and other agencies.
* Prepares bulletins and correspondence to acquaint field representatives with current activities and legislation.
* Participates in or initiates civic functions, such as panel discussions and mass communication programs, to inform public of services rendered and rights and benefits of veterans and dependents.
* May offer technical advice at congressional or other governmental hearings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, supervises, and coordinates activities of food-and-beverage checkers and cashiers ii at multiple stations in large food-service establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes food-checking and cashiering stations to support activities, such as dining rooms, bars, clubs, banquets, and social functions.
* Hires and trains workers.
* Observes food-checking, billing, and cashiering activities; counts cash; and reconciles charge sales and cash receipts with total sales to verify accuracy of transactions.
* Compiles reports, such as cash receipts, guest-bill charges, and sales for accounting and management purposes, or supervises clerical workers preparing reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts recreation activities with assigned groups in public department of voluntary agency. Responsibilities include:
* Organizes, promotes, and develops interest in activities, such as arts and crafts, sports, games, music, dramatics, social recreation, camping, and hobbies.
* Cooperates with other staff members in conducting community wide events and works with neighborhood groups to determine recreation interests and needs of persons of all ages.
* Works under close supervision of recreation supervisor .
* Cooperates with recreation and nonrecreation personnel when in agency setting, such as settlement house, institution for children or aged, hospital, armed services, or penal institution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages hobby shops and coordinates activities of workers engaged in conducting classes in one or more crafts, such as woodworking, photography, and leather tooling for hobby or craft shop. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and initiates promotional projects to publicize recreational facilities.
* Prepares budget request for additional craft facilities.
* Conducts surveys to determine which crafts are in demand to ensure that facilities are acquired.
* Inventories and requisitions supplies.
* Plans and coordinates activities of subordinates conducting classes.
* Prepares accounting reports on disbursement of funds.
* Demonstrates use of machines and equipment to enforce safety rules and regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice (any industry) master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates various activities of personnel engaged in installing and maintaining municipal emergency and business radio communications equipment, and in operating police, fire, or other municipal radio transmitters. Responsibilities include:
* Ensures that government regulations concerning installation and operation of municipal radio stations are complied with.
* Participates in operation, testing, and development of all types of police, fire, or other municipal communication systems.
* Submits required reports to designated authorities concerning communications equipment status, such as nature of business transacted over radio station, character of radio repairs made or needed, and general condition of municipal communications system.
* Confers with municipal authorities for approval of major capital investments needed in establishing and maintaining system.
* Cooperates with fire, weather station, and civil defense authorities to originate or relay emergency messages.
* In communities where equipment is used primarily for police broadcasts, may be a police officer and be designated according to rank as Radio-Division Captain; Radio-Division Lieutenant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes verbal or statistical data to prepare reports and studies for use by professional workers in variety of areas, such as science, social science, law, medicine, or politics. Responsibilities include:
* Searches sources, such as reference works, literature, documents, newspapers, and statistical records, to obtain data on assigned subject.
* Analyzes and evaluates applicability of collected data.
* Prepares statistical tabulations, using calculator or computer.
* Writes reports or presents data in formats such as abstracts, bibliographies, graphs, or maps.
* May interview individuals to obtain data or draft correspondence to answer inquiries.
* May be designated Legislative Aide when conducting studies to assist lawmakers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates project activities to ensure administrative efficiency and compliance with federal laws, regulations, and standards and directs disbursement of federal funds and administration of federal projects to implement fish and wildlife conservation programs in state. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes conservation problems and needs in state to recommend or authorize establishment of conservation programs.
* Confers with conservation officials to provide coordination of project and liaison between federal and state authorities.
* Reviews accounting records and authorizes reimbursement of project funds to state.
* Prepares budget estimates for activities and projects.
Industry:Professional careers
