- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who promotes new fashions and coordinates promotional activities, such as fashion shows, to induce consumer acceptance. Responsibilities include:
* Studies fashion and trade journals, travels to garment centers, attends fashion shows, and visits manufacturers and merchandise markets to obtain information on fashion trends.
* Consults with buying personnel to gain advice regarding type of fashions store will purchase and feature for season.
* Advises publicity and display departments of merchandise to be publicized.
* Selects garments and accessories to be shown at fashion shows.
* Provides information on current fashions, style trends, and use of accessories.
* May contract with models, musicians, caterers, and other personnel to manage staging of shows.
* May conduct teenage fashion shows and direct activities of store-sponsored club for teenage girls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls air traffic on and within vicinity of airport according to established procedures and policies to prevent collisions and to minimize delays arising from traffic congestion. Responsibilities include:
* Answers radio calls from arriving and departing aircraft and issues landing and take-off instructions and information, such as runway to use, wind velocity and direction, visibility, taxiing instructions, and pertinent data on other aircraft operating in vicinity.
* Transfers control of departing flights to and accepts control of arriving flights from air traffic control center, using telephone or interphone.
* Alerts airport emergency crew and other designated personnel by radio or telephone when airplanes are having flight difficulties.
* Pushes buttons or pulls switches to control airport floodlights and boundary, runway, and hazard lights.
* Scans control panel to ascertain that lights are functioning.
* Operates radio and monitors radarscope to control aircraft operating in vicinity of airport.
* Receives cross-country flight plans and transmits them to air traffic control center.
* Signals aircraft flying under visual flight rules, using electric signal light or flags.
* May control cross-runway traffic by radio directions to guards or maintenance vehicles.
* May keep written record of messages received from aircraft.
* May control traffic within designated sector of airspace between centers and beyond airport control tower area and be designated Air-Traffic-Control Specialist, Center.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes cost of customers' laundry by pricing each item on customers' lists, using adding machine, calculating machine, or comptometer. May keep inventory of customers' laundered articles. May prepare statements to be sent to customers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of fish and game wardens and other personnel within state or conservation district. Responsibilities include:
* Determines effectiveness of training administered by others, according to review of personnel records and supervisory evaluations.
* Coordinates special enforcement campaigns, such as rabies control activities and investigations into cause of excessive fish mortality.
* Assigns personnel to enforcement territories or to aid other divisions in seasonal conservation activities.
* Prepares public information materials, delivers speeches, and confers with representatives of sports groups to promote conservation activities.
* Answers correspondence concerning enforcement or other activities.
* Keeps records of hunting accidents, drownings, hunting law violations, and related data.
* Prepares budget for submission to state legislature.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and records personal data about civilian workers, vendors, contractors, military personnel, and dependents of military personnel at defense installation and prepares badges, passes, and identification cards. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews applicants to obtain and verify information, such as name, date of birth, physical description, and type of security clearance held.
* Corresponds with law enforcement officials, previous employers, and other references to obtain applicant's social, moral, and political background for use by department in determining employment acceptability.
* Photographs new workers, using automatic identification camera.
* May fingerprint workers and keep other supplemental identification systems.
* May keep records of badges issued, lost, and reissued.
* May issue temporary identification badges to visitors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who represents riders of race horses in negotiations with owners to arrange for riding engagements at racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Contacts riders to ascertain races and dates they are available for hire.
* Confers with owners of horses scheduled to race to inform them of riders available.
* Negotiates with owners for riding fees.
* Records name of owner, horse, date, and number of race in engagement book.
* Notifies riders of contracted engagements, and terms agreed on.
* Notifies riders to report to owner for briefing on horse's temperament and behavior, and other riding instructions.
* Collects hiring fees from riders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, designs, and oversees construction of irrigation projects for transporting and distributing water to agricultural lands. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and designs irrigation fixtures and installation of fixtures to requirements and specifications.
* Directs, through subordinate supervisors, construction of such irrigation systems as dams, canals, and ditches, according to type of soil, climatic characteristics, water supply, return flow, and other factors affecting irrigation requirements.
* Conducts research on problems of soil drainage and conservation, applying knowledge of civil engineering (research engineer)
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who participates, as member of management team, in formulating and establishing organizational policies and operating procedures for company and develops, implements, and coordinates, through support staff and lower echelon managers, product assurance program to prevent or eliminate defects in new or existing products. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes, evaluates, and presents information concerning factors, such as business situations, production capabilities, manufacturing problems, economic trends, and design and development of new products for consideration by other members of management team.
* Suggests and debates alternative methods and procedures in solving problems and meeting changing market opportunities.
* Cooperates with other top management personnel in formulating and establishing company policies, operating procedures, and goals.
* Develops initial and subsequent modifications of product assurance program to delineate areas of responsibility, personnel requirements, and operational procedures within program, according to and consistent with company goals and policies.
* Evaluates contents of reports from product assurance program department heads and confers with top management personnel preparatory to formulating fiscal budget for product assurance program.
* Conducts management meetings with product assurance program department heads to establish, delineate, and review program organizational policies, to coordinate functions and operations between departments, and to establish responsibilities and procedures for attaining objectives.
* Reviews technical problems and procedures of departments and recommends solutions to problems or changes in procedures.
* Visits and confers with representatives of material and component vendors to obtain information related to supply quality, capacity of vendor to meet orders, and vendor quality standards.
* Confers with engineers about quality assurance of new products designed and manufactured products on market to rectify problems.
* Reviews technical publications, articles, and abstracts to stay abreast of technical developments in industry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles weekly personnel assignment schedules for production department in manufacturing plant. Responsibilities include:
* Studies production schedules and staffing tables to ascertain personnel requirements.
* Determines and records work assignments according to worker availability, seniority, job classification, and preferences.
* Compiles and oversees in-plant distribution of work schedule.
* Adjusts schedules to meet emergencies caused by extended leave or increased production demands.
* Compiles annual seniority lists on which employees indicate vacation preferences and approves leave requests to prevent production losses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs and oversees installation and repair of marine powerplants, propulsion systems, heating and ventilating systems, and other mechanical and electrical equipment in ships, docks, and marine facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Studies drawings and specifications and performs complex calculations to conceive equipment and systems designed to meet requirements of marine craft or facility.
* Oversees and evaluates operation of equipment during acceptance testing and shakedown cruises.
* May specialize in design of equipment, such as boilers, steam-driven reciprocating engines, heat exchangers, fire-control and communication systems, electric power systems, or piping and related fittings and valves.
Industry:Professional careers
