- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who manages establishment to receive and pay off bets placed by horse racing patrons. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares and issues lists of approximate handicap odds on each horse prior to race, from knowledge of previous performance of horse under existing conditions of weather and track.
* Determines risks on each horse to refuse additional bets after maximum desired limit of liability has been reached.
* Records bets placed over counter or by telephone or teletype.
* Issues betting receipts.
* Pays off bets on track parimutuel basis.
* May supervise and coordinate activities of cashiers, gambling.
* May balance betting accounts and keep records as required by state or municipal authorities.
* May place customers' bets with cooperating bookmakers to limit liability and apportion risk.
* May be designated Sports Bookmaker when taking bets on sports, such as football, boxing, baseball, and hockey.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transfers fingerprints of persons onto cards for purposes of identification. Responsibilities include:
* Directs individual to extend fingers and presses fingers on ink pad or glass plate and rolls them in specified spaces on card.
* Writes or types identifying information, such as name, address, and occupation on card.
* May administer oath of allegiance and perform other clerical duties.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies electrical theory and related knowledge to test and modify developmental or operational electrical machinery and electrical control equipment and circuitry in industrial or commercial plants and laboratories. Responsibilities include:
* Assembles and tests experimental motor-control devices, switch panels, transformers, generator windings, solenoids, and other electrical equipment and components according to engineering data and knowledge of electrical principles.
* Modifies electrical prototypes to correct functional deviations under direction of electrical engineer.
* Diagnoses cause of electrical or mechanical malfunction or failure of operational equipment and performs preventative and corrective maintenance.
* Develops wiring diagrams, layout drawings, and engineering specifications for system or equipment modifications or expansion, and directs personnel performing routine installation and maintenance duties.
* Plans, directs, and records periodic electrical testing, and recommends or initiates modification or replacement of equipment which fails to meet acceptable operating standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who classifies materials according to subject matter and assigns numbers or symbols from predetermined coding system to facilitate accurate filing and reference. Responsibilities include:
* Scans correspondence, reports, drawings, and other materials to be filed to determine subject matter.
* Ascertains specified number or symbol, using code book or chart, and marks or stamps code on material.
* Assigns cross-indexing numbers if subject matter should be classified and filed under more than one heading.
* May revise coding system to improve code usage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interviews applicants for employment and processes application forms. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews applicants to obtain information, such as age, marital status, work experience, education, training, and occupational interest.
* Informs applicants of company employment policies.
* Refers qualified applicants to employing official.
* Types letters to references indicated on application, or telephones agencies, such as credit bureaus and finance companies.
* Files applications forms.
* Compiles and types reports for supervisors on applicants and employees from personnel records.
* May review credentials to establish eligibility of applicant in regard to identification and naturalization.
* May telephone or write applicant to inform applicant of acceptance or rejection for employment.
* May administer aptitude, personality, and interest tests.
* May compile personnel records (personnel clerk).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages recreation establishment, such as dancehall, sports arena, or auditorium, to provide entertainment to public. Responsibilities include:
* Negotiates with promoters to contract and schedule entertainment.
* Compiles record of future engagements.
* Supervises clerical, service, and other employees.
* Hires and discharges workers.
* Complies with state and local fire and liquor regulations governing operation of establishment.
* May order supplies.
* May oversee workers engaged in keeping premises of establishment clean and in good repair.
* May be designated according to type of recreational facility directed as Manager, Dance Floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers employment service program. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and executes policies and procedures to provide statewide employment services under authority of federal and state regulations.
* Coordinates local office operations with staff services, such as counseling, testing, job analysis, farm placement, recruitment and staff training, and human resource development to achieve program objectives.
* Negotiates agreements with other state agencies to provide assistance in cooperative projects.
* Reviews operating reports to determine effectiveness of program.
* Attends conferences with government officials, employers, labor leaders, and other parties to secure assistance in formulating policies for new or ongoing programs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes and collects payments from customers for utility services or appliances. Responsibilities include:
* Receives cash or check from customer or through mail.
* Totals items on bill, using adding machine.
* Records transaction on cash register and issues receipt and any change due customer.
* Balances totals received with totals on billing stubs.
* Explains charges on bill to customer and initiates action to adjust complaints.
* May collect customer's deposit for service connection.
* May specialize in handling delinquent bills or those presented for partial payment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies and balances entries and records of financial transactions reported by various hotel departments during day, using adding, bookkeeping, and calculating machines. May perform duties of hotel clerk in smaller establishment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interrogates and screens individuals to detect deception or to verify truthfulness, using polygraph equipment and standard polygraph techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Attaches apparatus to individual to measure and record changes in respiration, blood pressure, and electrical resistance of skin as result of perspiration changes.
* Evaluates reactions to questions of a non-emotional nature.
* Interprets and diagnoses individual's emotional responses to key questions recorded on graph.
* Visits morgues, examines scene of crime, or contacts other sources, when assigned to criminal case, to gather information for use in interrogating suspects, witnesses, and other persons.
* Appears in court as witness on matters relating to polygraph examinations, according to formalized procedures.
* Prepares reports and keeps records on polygraph examinations.
* May instruct classes in polygraph interrogation techniques, methods, and uses.
* When analyzing voice stress charted on moving tape by needle of recording device for deception or truthfulness verification, may be designated Psychological Stress Evaluator.
Industry:Professional careers
