- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates typewriter or word processor/computer to transcribe letters, reports, or other recorded data heard through earphones of transcribing machine. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts cassette tape into cassette player or positions tape on machine spindle and threads tape through machine.
* Positions earphones on ears and presses buttons on transcribing machine to listen to recorded data.
* Turns dials to control volume, tone, and speed of voice reproduction.
* Depresses pedal to pause tape.
* Types message heard through earphones.
* Reads chart prepared by dictator to determine length of message and corrections to be made.
* May type unrecorded information, such as name, address, and date.
* May keep file of records.
* May receive and route callers (receptionist ).
* May be designated by subject matter transcribed as Legal Transcriber; Medical Transcriber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assigns and dispatches sleeping cars to railroad company requesting cars. Responsibilities include:
* Keeps record of car movement and where assigned, using train schedules and movement charts.
* Assigns conductors, pullman to trains for trips and notifies them of assignments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records insurance information, such as policy number, amount and type of coverage, and expiration date, on street maps showing locations of buildings on which insurance company has written insurance. Compares insurance coverage with adjoining buildings to check justification of coverage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who counts, sorts, and issues money to parimutuel-ticket sellers, and parimutuel-ticket cashiers to conduct daily transactions at racetrack. Observes totaling board for official race results and issues money to cashiering stations to pay holders of winning tickets. Compares workers' reports of cash collected and paid out to verify accuracy of transactions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs collection, recording, and tabulation of vital statistics and implementation of special statistical studies required by state government. Responsibilities include:
* Directs activities of workers engaged in compiling statistical data, such as births, deaths, marriages, incidence of various diseases, and supplementary material.
* Formulates procedures for converting raw data into statistical form, according to knowledge of accepted statistical analysis procedures.
* Conducts special studies on request from legislative officials, private organizations, and other interested groups, by defining dimensions of study, size of statistical sampling, data collection procedures, and methods of presenting findings.
* Develops and implements, through subordinates, procedures for registration and certification of births, marriages, and similar occurrences in communities throughout state.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares and compiles documents required by federal government for discharge of foreign cargo at domestic port to serve as intermediary between importers, merchant shipping companies, airlines, railroads, trucking companies, pipeline operators, and the United States Customs Service. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares entry papers from shipper's invoice in accordance with U.S.
* Customs Service regulations, and regulations of other federal agencies bearing on importation of goods, such as Environmental Protection Agency and Food And Drug Administration.
* Files papers with Customs Service and arranges for payment of duties.
* Quotes duty rates on goods to be imported, based on knowledge of federal tariffs and excise taxes.
* Prepares papers for shippers desiring to appeal duty charges imposed by Customs Service.
* Provides for storage of imported goods and for transportation of imported goods from port to final destination.
* May register foreign ships with U.S.
* Coast Guard.
* Must be licensed by U.S.
* Treasury Department or operate under corporate license granted to employer by Treasury Department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs operation of dude ranch. Responsibilities include:
* Formulates policy on advertising, publicity, guest rates, and credit.
* Plans recreational and entertainment activities, such as camping, fishing, hunting, horseback riding, and dancing.
* Directs activities of dude wranglers.
* Directs preparation and maintenance of financial records.
* Directs other activities, such as breeding, raising, and showing horses, mules, and livestock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of clerical workers in field office of construction project, engaged in performing such office work as compiling and distributing payrolls, keeping inventories, compiling cost data, and keeping account books. Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs compliance with official election procedures throughout state and recommends procedural changes to improve efficiency and equity of voting. Responsibilities include:
* Participates in training election workers and advising local election officials prior to elections.
* Directs workers engaged in printing ballots and conducting of censuses, elections, and referendums.
* Studies election laws in other states and jurisdictions to recommend changes in procedures governing registration, filing, voting, reporting, and other requirements.
* Alters official legislative procedures as manual recommendations are accepted by legislature.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who monitors plant safety status, advises operations staff, and prepares technical reports for operation of thermal-nuclear reactor at electric-power generating station. Responsibilities include:
* Observes control-room instrumentation systems and confers with operating personnel to ensure safe operation of plant.
* Walks throughout plant and observes machinery, equipment, and operating procedures to identify potential hazards.
* Examines locations of accidents and transients (sudden changes of voltage or load) and obtains data to formulate preventive measures.
* Implements changes in systems, procedures, structure, or equipment to improve safety.
* Compares critical parameters with plant transient predictions and accident analysis and determines whether response of plant safety systems is sufficient.
* Formulates corrective actions, calculates critical parameters from raw data, and computes rate of control rod withdrawal during reactor startup.
* Confers with operating personnel to provide technical assistance and to discuss maintenance activities, abnormal conditions, and safe operation of plant.
* Prepares reports to inform management officials of any proposed changes or irregularities in plant operation or systems.
Industry:Professional careers
