- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who operates news wirephoto machine to transmit syndicated news photographs over telecommunication wires to newspapers and magazines. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts developed photographic print in camera chamber equipped with electric eye which scans and transmits photographs over transcontinental telephone or telegraph wires.
* Adjusts controls to coordinate machine processes involving detecting, screening, and converting photographic highlights and shadows into sound signals for wire transmission.
* May operate machine to receive news photographs.
* May develop film and print positives.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates news wirephoto machine to transmit syndicated news photographs over telecommunication wires to newspapers and magazines. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts developed photographic print in camera chamber equipped with electric eye which scans and transmits photographs over transcontinental telephone or telegraph wires.
* Adjusts controls to coordinate machine processes involving detecting, screening, and converting photographic highlights and shadows into sound signals for wire transmission.
* May operate machine to receive news photographs.
* May develop film and print positives.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties in business office of commercial or industrial establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Furnishes workers with clerical supplies.
* Opens, sorts, and distributes incoming mail, and collects, seals, and stamps outgoing mail.
* Delivers oral or written messages.
* Collects and distributes paperwork, such as records or timecards, from one department to another.
* Marks, tabulates, and files articles and records.
* May use office equipment, such as envelope-sealing machine, letter opener, record shaver, stamping machine, and transcribing machine.
* May deliver items to other business establishments.
* May specialize in delivering mail, messages, documents, and packages between departments of establishment and be designated Messenger, Office.
* May deliver stock certificates and bonds within and between stock brokerage offices and be designated Runner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers and illustration material to and from advertisers and other outside agencies and within office.
* May read competitors' publications, clip items or stories not printed in own publication, and submit clippings to editor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers and illustration material to and from advertisers and other outside agencies and within office.
* May read competitors' publications, clip items or stories not printed in own publication, and submit clippings to editor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers messages to and from conveyor belts, terminals, tube locations, and other transmitting points within telegraph office.
* May microfilm copies of telegrams, using automatic microfilming equipment.
* May search for and retrieve messages stuck in equipment between transmitting points.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives and routes messages through pneumatic-tube system. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens incoming pneumatic-tube carriers containing items, such as mail correspondence, bills, and receipts.
* Reads and sorts items according to department.
* Inserts items into carriers, and carriers into tube system, and routes to specified locations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in collecting overdue payments for charge accounts, credit card accounts, or loans from customers of banks, loan companies, department stores, oil companies, or other credit-card-issuing companies. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews delinquent account records to determine which customers must be contacted for collection of overdue accounts.
* Organizes collection work load according to degree and amount of delinquency and assigns accounts to workers for collection.
* Writes letters or approves form letters for use in collection attempts.
* Recommends telephone techniques used by collector.
* Verifies accuracy of accounts, using calculator and computer.
* Authorizes or refers accounts to manager for repossession and legal actions against debtors.
* May assist subordinates with collection activities in difficult cases.
* May supervise and coordinate activities of clerical workers in related activities.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in resolving customer problems and complaints concerning matters, such as merchandise, service, and billing. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews customer-complaint correspondence, notes any suggestions, and assigns complaint to customer-complaint clerk for action.
* Advises subordinates on handling difficult customer complaints, or may handle complaint personally.
* Confers with other supervisory or managerial personnel to recommend changes in order to avoid recurring customer complaints.
* May explain to customer by telephone or letter action taken on complaint.
* May follow up with customer to see that complaint was satisfactorily resolved.
* May be designated according to type of problem as Supervisor, Lost and Found.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in examining insurance claims for payment in claims division of insurance company. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes and approves insurance and matured endowment claims.
* Conducts personal interviews with policy owners and beneficiaries to explain procedure for filing claims.
* Submits statement of claim liabilities to actuarial department for review.
* Informs departmental supervisors on claims status.
* Evaluates job performance of subordinates.
* Performs duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
