- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who directs activities of state department governing securities and real estate transactions. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets laws regarding transactions and recommends action by law enforcement agencies or appropriate state board.
* Investigates applications for registration of securities sales.
* Investigates complaints of fraudulent or irregular transactions and recommends legal action if necessary.
* Prepares agenda and participates in meetings with Securities Commission and Board of Real Estate Examiners to discuss pending cases and present or future problems.
* Directs workers engaged in publishing manuals, bulletins, and reports for information of dealers, brokers, and public.
* Conducts educational classes and approves written examinations required of applicants for registration and licenses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who advises low-income family members how to plan, budget, shop, prepare balanced meals, and handle and store food, following prescribed standards. Responsibilities include:
* Advises clients of advantages of food stamps, how to obtain stamps, and use of stamps during shopping trips.
* Transports clients to shopping area, using automobile.
* Observes clients' food selections.
* Recommends alternate economical and nutritional food choices.
* Observes and discusses meal preparation.
* Suggests alternate methods of food preparation.
* Assists in planning of food budget, utilizing charts and sample budgets.
* Advises clients on preferred methods of sanitation.
* Consults with supervisor concerning programs for individual families.
* Maintains records concerning results of family visits.
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 directs and coordinates activities of municipal, regional, or state fruit, vegetable, or meat market or exchange. Responsibilities include:
* Negotiates contracts between wholesalers and market authority or rents space to food buyers and sellers.
* Directs through subordinate supervisory personnel collection of fees or monies due market, maintenance and cleaning of buildings and grounds, and enforcement of market sanitation and security rules and regulations.
* Keeps records of current sales prices of food items and total sales volume.
* May endeavor to resolve differences arising between buyers and sellers.
* May prepare market activity reports for management or board.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts and lists gas- and electric-power service-connection orders for distribution to various service centers and compiles data from completed orders for reports. Responsibilities include:
* Sorts orders into groups for delivery to service centers, locating address of customer on zoned map to determine appropriate center.
* Compiles list of each type of order (dispatch list) for use as control record.
* Reviews completed orders for compliance with reporting procedures and compiles data for various reports.
* Reviews incompleted orders and forwards them for processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts tests on ceramic products performing duties as described under test engineer master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops plans for construction and utilization of revenue-producing vehicle parking facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and conducts comprehensive field surveys to locate sites for new parking facilities.
* Analyzes factors such as capacity, turnover, rates, and required property changes relative to proposed sites, and prepares maps, graphs, tracings, and diagrams to illustrate findings.
* Designs parking lot facilities, including spaces, aisles, driveways, lighting, gates, landscaping, cashier booths, storm drains, grades, and paving details, and prepares cost estimates.
* Evaluates work performed by contractors to verify conformity to specifications.
* Keeps log of construction projects and prepares final reports.
* Reports maintenance problems occurring at facilities to supervisor.
* Prepares replies to public suggestions and complaints.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs administration of public welfare program in county or city, in conformity with policies of welfare board and availability of funds. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with members of welfare board to plan activities and expenditures.
* Coordinates, directly or through subordinates, activities of staff engaged in investigating and counseling welfare claimants and in processing welfare claims.
* Participates in discussions with community leaders and other interested parties to improve conditions of welfare recipients and to coordinate public assistance programs with efforts of religious and charitable organizations.
* Coordinates distribution of government surplus commodities in conformity with federal standards.
* Prepares welfare budget and adjusts welfare services in accordance with available funds.
* In smaller communities may interview welfare recipients, assist them in resolving personal or financial problems, and perform related activities (caseworker).
* May be designated according to jurisdiction as County Director, Welfare.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates financial assets, properties, and resources of hospitalized retarded and brain-damaged clients to protect financial interests and provide reimbursement of hospital costs. Responsibilities include:
* Visits and interviews or contacts by mail or telephone relatives, friends, former employers, pension funds, fraternal and veterans organizations and government agencies.
* Records documentation of financial resources in patient files.
* Analyzes data accumulated, such as disability allowances, medicare, medicaid, social security pension, dividends, interest, and insurance, and determines ability to pay for hospitalization.
* Determines additional sources from which reimbursements can be obtained.
* Prepares reports and enumerates amounts and sources of reimbursements, including public assistance from social agencies in behalf of patients and families.
* Reviews patients' records to ensure that reimbursements are maintained.
* Applies for appointment of conservators to financially protect patients with assets over statutory limits and submits names of appointees to courts.
* Occasionally attends court hearings to protect patient interests.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who takes dictation and operates typewriter to transcribe dictated material and to prepare metal printing plates for use in addressing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Takes and transcribes dictation.
* Operates typewriter to type manuscript in English or foreign language.
* Operates electromagnetic typewriter to imprint metal printing plates for use in addressing machines.
* May operate justifying typewriter to produce typed matter with uniform margins.
* May cut stencils for use in mimeographing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
