- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of workers involved with analyzing systems of records management. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and directs compilation and updating of cost and control records, utilizing knowledge of records inventories, usage, costs, and operating practices.
* Coordinates activities of personnel engaged in studying such matters as simplification of filing and retrieval systems, protection of vital records and economical utilization of paper, microfilm, computer program, or other information-bearing media according to organizational and governmental recordkeeping schedules and requirements.
* Analyzes and evaluates staff reports and approves implementation of recommendations, utilizing knowledge of principles and techniques of records and information management, managerial processes and systems, budgetary limitations and organizational policies and procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of workers involved with analysis of business reports. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and directs compilation and updating of cost and control records, utilizing knowledge of reports inventories, usage, cost, distribution, frequency, and operating practices.
* Coordinates activities of personnel engaged in reports analysis, such as determining necessity of report, simplification of reports format, increasing content effectiveness, and reduction of processing costs.
* Plans and directs activities intended to develop new or revised reports format, utilizing knowledge of principles and techniques of information and documents management, vital records protection, and cost-control practices.
* Analyzes and evaluates staff recommendations and approves implementation of changes, utilizing knowledge of reports analysis and standardization, managerial processes and systems, budgetary limitations, and organizational policies and procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and evaluates clerical work methods to develop new or improved standardized methods and procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews clerical workers and supervisory personnel and conducts on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, methods and equipment used, and personnel involved.
* Sketches office layout to show location of equipment required for originating, processing, and filing business records and information.
* Confers with managerial personnel to obtain suggestions for improvements, such as modifying existing procedures, using alternate work method, or introducing new business forms, reports standards, or coding system.
* Evaluates findings, using knowledge of principles and techniques of work simplification, governmental record keeping requirements, and company policies to recommend methods or equipment intended to improve clerical operations.
* May prepare training manuals and train clerical workers in new procedure or operation and maintenance of machines and equipment.
* May assist in preparation of job descriptions or specifications.
* May specialize in one phase of clerical methods analysis, such as filing, workflow, or coding systems.
* May be designated according to location where work is performed as in-house staff or customer field representative.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and evaluates format and function of business forms to develop new, or improve existing forms format, usage, and control. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews forms to evaluate need for revision, consolidation, or discontinuation, using knowledge of form use, workflow, document flow, and compatibility with manual or machine processing.
* Confers with form users to gather recommendations for improvements, considering such characteristics as form necessity, completeness, design, text, and specifications as to size and color of paper, style of typeface, and number of copies.
* May design, draft or prepare finished master copy for new or modified form, or confer with printer's representative to specify changes in format and approve proof copies.
* Prepares and issues written instructions for use of forms in accordance with organizational policies, procedures, and practices.
* Keeps records to update information concerning form origin, function, necessity, usage, cost, and stock level.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and evaluates records-management systems to develop new or improve existing methods for efficient handling, protecting, and disposing of business records and information. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews records and reports to ascertain media (paper, microfilm, or computer tape) used, reproduction process, or electronic data processing involved.
* Drafts office and storage area layout to plot location of equipment and to compute space available.
* Confers with clerical and supervisory personnel to gather suggestions for improvements and to detect records-management problems.
* Reviews records retention schedules and governmental recordkeeping requirements to determine timetables for transferring active records to inactive or archival storage, for reducing paper records to micrographic form, or for destroying obsolete or unnecessary records.
* Evaluates findings and recommends changes or modifications in procedures, utilizing knowledge of functions of operating units, coding systems and filing methods.
* Recommends purchase of storage, retrieval, or disposal equipment according to knowledge of equipment capability and cost.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and evaluates purpose and content of business reports to develop new, or improve existing format, use, and control. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews reports to determine basic characteristics, such as origin and report flow, format, frequency, distribution and purpose or function of report.
* Confers with persons originating, handling, processing, or receiving reports to identify problems and to gather suggestions for improvements.
* Evaluates findings, using knowledge of workflow, operating practices, records retention schedules, and office equipment layout.
* Recommends establishment of new or modified reporting methods and procedures to improve report content and completeness of information.
* May prepare and issue instructions concerning generation, completion, and distribution of reports according to new or revised practices, procedures, or policies of reports management.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes current and past budgets, prepares and justifies budget requests, and allocates funds according to spending priorities in governmental service agency. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes accounting records to determine financial resources required to implement program and submits recommendations for budget allocations.
* Recommends approval or disapproval of requests for funds.
* Advises staff on cost analysis and fiscal allocations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contacts landowners to negotiate purchase of Christmas trees and arranges with contractors to cut trees. Responsibilities include:
* Contacts owners of forest lands prior to cutting season to negotiate contracts for purchase of trees.
* Surveys stumpage (standing timber) to determine approximate tree yield and informs property owner of types and sizes of trees desired.
* Confers with cutting contractors to arrange for cutting trees on leased lands and establishes piecework rate based on grade and size of trees cut.
* May supervise operations in district during cutting season.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contacts landowners to negotiate purchase of Christmas trees and arranges with contractors to cut trees. Responsibilities include:
* Contacts owners of forest lands prior to cutting season to negotiate contracts for purchase of trees.
* Surveys stumpage (standing timber) to determine approximate tree yield and informs property owner of types and sizes of trees desired.
* Confers with cutting contractors to arrange for cutting trees on leased lands and establishes piecework rate based on grade and size of trees cut.
* May supervise operations in district during cutting season.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities concerned with contracts for purchase or sale of equipment, materials, products, or services. Responsibilities include:
* Examines performance requirements, delivery schedules, and estimates of costs of material, equipment, and production to ensure completeness and accuracy.
* Prepares bids, process specifications, test and progress reports, and other exhibits that may be required.
* Reviews bids from other firms for conformity to contract requirements and determines acceptable bids.
* Negotiates contract with customer or bidder.
* Requests or approves amendments to or extensions of contracts.
* Advises planning and production departments of contractual rights and obligations.
* May compile data for preparing estimates.
* May coordinate work of sales department with production and shipping department to implement fulfillment of contracts.
* May act as liaison between company and subcontractors.
* May direct sales program (manager, sales ).
Industry:Professional careers
