- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who promotes tenant welfare in low income public housing developments. Responsibilities include:
* Initiates and maintains liaison between local housing authority and voluntary and public agencies for development and managements of public housing developments.
* Facilitates establishment of constructive relationships between tenants and housing management, and among tenants.
* Secures social services, such as health, welfare, and education programs for improving family and community standards.
* Provides leadership to tenants in development of group activities, such as adult education and recreation.
* Refers families with personal problems to community resources.
* Cooperates with other organizations in development of understanding and interest among voluntary and public agencies participating in long range plans for urban improvement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities of state unclaimed property disposal office. Responsibilities include:
* Directs, through subordinates, search for owners of unclaimed property, such as abandoned automobiles, cash, or property of deceased individuals leaving no known heirs.
* Receives and directs processing of recovery claims, according to results of investigation or other evidence of ownership.
* Authorizes deposit of unclaimed property in trust fund or arranges for public auctions, depending upon nature of property.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of transfer clerks in transactions relating to stock certificates, applying knowledge of company policies and procedures, and commercial law. Responsibilities include:
* Explains company policies to stockholders with regard to stock transfers and payment of dividends.
* Examines certificates presented for transfer to verify legality of transactions.
* Answers inquiries concerning stock transfer requirements, dividend payments, and tax on certificates.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May arrange meetings for bank-shareholders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages hotel or motel to ensure efficient and profitable operation. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes standards for personnel administration and performance, service to patrons, room rates, advertising, publicity, credit, food selection and service, and type of patronage to be solicited.
* Plans dining room, bar, and banquet operations.
* Allocates funds, authorizes expenditures, and assists in planning budgets for departments.
* Interviews, hires, and evaluates personnel.
* Answers patrons' complaints and resolves problems.
* Delegates authority and assigns responsibilities to department heads.
* Inspects guests' rooms, public access areas, and outside grounds for cleanliness and appearance.
* Processes reservations and adjusts guests' complaints when working in small motels or hotels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to reproduce tape recordings from master tapes (original tape recording). Responsibilities include:
* Consults charts to determine amount of tape needed, considering running time of master tape.
* Positions master tape in master-reproducing machine and mounts blank tape on spindle of tape-recording machine.
* Threads tapes through machines.
* Interconnects and starts machines to record selection on blank tape.
* Stops machines and reverses tape in recording machine to record second selection on reverse side of tape.
* Operates recording machine to play back reproduced recording to test quality of reproduced sound.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures sonar, electrical, or radioactive characteristics of earth formations in oil- or gas-well boreholes to evaluate productivity of oil- or gas-bearing reservoirs, using sonic, electronic, or nuclear measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Signals hoisting engineer (any industry) to lower instruments into well, observing oscillograph and meters on control panel to verify operating condition of instruments.
* Turns dials on control panel to adjust instrument for specified recording and starts recording device when instruments reach bottom of borehole.
* Prints copies of recorded graphs in truck darkroom (developer (photofinishing)).
* Interprets graphs for customer to indicate identity, porosity, oil- or gas-bearing content, and productivity of geological formations.
* Measures borehole diameters, direction of borehole, and inclination of geological strata, using microcalipers, directional indicators (clinometers), and dipmeters.
* May be designated according to measuring instruments used as Acoustical Logging Engineer; Nuclear Logging Engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs traffic-safety program of municipality in accord with accident and traffic data compiled by subordinates. Plans and directs safety campaigns and coordinates activities of auxiliaries such as volunteer school-crossing personnel and motorist groups pledged to safety. Administers tests to determine driving proficiency and attitude of municipal employees. Keeps files of accident reports and maps accident locations to facilitate corrective measures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who consults with client to define need or problem, conducts studies and surveys to obtain data, and analyzes data to advise on or recommend solution, utilizing knowledge of theory, principles, or technology of specific discipline or field of specialization. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with client to ascertain and define need or problem area, and determine scope of investigation required to obtain solution.
* Conducts study or survey on need or problem to obtain data required for solution.
* Analyzes data to determine solution, such as installation of alternate methods and procedures, changes in processing methods and practices, modification of machines or equipment, or redesign of products or services.
* Advises client on alternate methods of solving need or problem, or recommends specific solution.
* May negotiate contract for consulting service.
* May specialize in providing consulting service to government in field of specialization.
* May be designated according to field of specialization such as engineering or science discipline, economics, education, labor, or in specialized field of work as health services, social services, or investment services.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, controls and monitors television broadcasting equipment to transmit television programs and station breaks to viewing audience. Responsibilities include:
* Reads television programming log to ascertain name of program or station break, and at what time program or station break is scheduled to air.
* Verifies voice-over recording, using tape equipment, and informs supervisor of inconsistencies.
* Loads videotape equipment with videotapes containing program or station break or presses button on switching equipment to access videotape equipment.
* Subtracts $T3preroll$T1 time from on-air time to determine at what time to begin preroll.
* Turns video and color monitors on and presses button to start videotape equipment.
* Observes scales in video and color monitors and turns knobs to set video and color levels to specifications.
* Turns knob to set audio level to specification.
* Observes clock, and presses buttons on switching equipment to begin preroll and to transmit program or station break to viewing audience.
* Observes on-air monitor to ascertain problems with transmission, such as loss of audio or video signals, and presses buttons to access and transmit technical difficulties sign or station identification to viewing audience.
* Presses buttons to access voice-over recording indicating nature of problem, name of station or name of next scheduled program.
* Troubleshoots equipment and observes lights on transmitter control panel to determine cause and area of problem and informs engineering personnel of transmission problems.
* Records onto television programming log actual time program or station break was aired.
* Prepares report describing problems encountered during transmission of program or station break and reason for problems.
* May control transmitting equipment to route television program to affiliated station.
* May take and record transmitter readings onto transmitter log.
* May be required to hold license issued by Federal Communications Commission.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs conservation of natural resources within state and negotiates with interested parties to promote maximum utilization of resources consistent with public interest. Responsibilities include:
* Initiates conservation programs according to accepted principles and familiarity with characteristics of natural resources and economy of state.
* Establishes standards for resource depletion, such as annual oil production quotas or limitations on extraction of iron ore deposits.
* Negotiates with mining interests, petroleum production companies, and other parties to promote conservation principles, encourage technological advancement, and stimulate efficient exploitation of resources.
* Delivers speeches and participates in discussions with representatives of government, labor, and industry to resolve problems related to conservation and economic development.
* Participates in establishment and implementation of rehabilitation programs for workers affected by changing technology or loss of markets.
* Supervises and coordinates, through subordinates, activities of workers engaged in preparing reports, statistics, and other data on departmental activities.
* May be designated according to resource involved as Commissioner, Iron Range Resources And Rehabilitation.
Industry:Professional careers
