Practical skills: list by number of occupationsPage 42 of 100
Things you need to be able to do at work. The ones the most occupations require come first.
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- Evaluate project plans
Evaluate proposals and project plans and assess feasibility issues.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Examine cell specimens microscopically
Prepare and put the cell specimens received for examination on slides, stain and mark cellular changes and abnormalities.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Filter edible oils
Filter oil as one of the processes of oil extraction.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Follow industry codes of practice for aviation safety
Follows industry codes of practice relating to aviation safety.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Follow up complaint reports
Follow up complaints or accident reports in order to take adequate measures to solve problems.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Forecast occupancy demand
Predict the number of hotel rooms that will be booked, schedule occupancies and estimate demand forecast.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Grade coffee beans
Grade coffee beans based on their characteristics, defects, size, colour, moisture content, taste, acidity, body, or aroma.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Guide drill pipes
Guide drill pipe in and out of elevators.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Guide ships into docks
Safely guide a ship into a dock and anchor it.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Handle bulk transfer of raw material
Transfer dry raw materials using suitable mechanical handling systems like screw feeders, or using gravity or pneumatic means.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Handle explosives
Handle explosives in accordance with explosives law, including tracking and control of the magazine.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Handle fish harvesting waste
Dispose of waste, blood and inferior quality fish according to site waste management procedures.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Handle metal work orders
Interpret work orders in order to determine which metal parts should be produced.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Handle the logistics of medicinal products
Store, preserve and distribute medicinal products at the wholesale stage.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Identify defects in concrete
Use infrared techniques to discover defects in concrete.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Identify faults in utility meters
Monitor utility measuring instruments, in order to assess whether the readings are accurate, and to identify damage and need for repairs and maintenance.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Identify sources on potential target communities for art
Identify relevant sources of information relating to a potential community you could work with.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Implement cost-effective cargo handling strategies on ships
Implement cost-effective strategies for loading and unloading of cargo on ships with the aim of maximising efficiency, reducing the resources expended, and assuring sufficient…
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Implement front-end website design
Develop website layout and enhance user experience based on provided design concepts.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Inspect animal carcasses
Inspect the animal carcasses for non conformities such abscesses or contamination, and correct them if possible.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Inspect insects in whole grain
Inspect loads of unprocessed grain to detect harmful insects, like grain beetles.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Inspect manufacture of rolling stock
Inspect manufacturing plants where rolling stock parts are produced to ensure safety and quality control.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Inspect paint quality
Inspect paint to ensure it is of a good quality by testing the viscosity, homogeneity and other factors.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Install wood hardware
Use hinges, knobs and rails to fix wooden hardware on wooden elements, making sure that the hardware fits onto or into the element and can be moved smoothly and securely.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Interpret pedigree charts
Construct and interpret diagrams that show the occurrence and appearance of a particular gene and its ancestors from one generation to the next.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Investigate social security applications
Investigate the eligibility of citizens applying for social security benefits by examining documents, interviewing the citizen, and researching the related legislation.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Issue official documents
Issue and certify official documents to national citizens and foreigners such as passports and certificates.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Keep up-to-date to current customs regulations
Follow the latest developments and changes occurred in customs regulations and government policies related to international trade.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Lead technology development of an organisation
Develop activities surrounding innovation and research in the field of technology within an organisation based on its strategic direction and growth goals.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Level earth surface
Change the profile of the earth surface, turning it flat or shaping it to match a certain slope.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Liaise with property owners
Establish good working relations with the owner, signal problems and renovation needs, and advise on the choice of tenants.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain camping facilities
Keep campsites or areas for recreation, including maintenance and supply selection.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain catalogue collection
Describe, inventorise and catalogue items in a collection.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain court order
Ensure that order is kept between the parties during a hearing in court.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain data entry requirements
Uphold conditions for data entry.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain fish harvesting equipment
Clean and store fish harvesting equipment after use.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain plans of a mining site
Prepare and maintain surface and underground plans and blueprints of a mining site; carry out surveys and perform risk assessment of potential mining sites.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain ropes
Maintain splices and knots in ropes.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Maintain specified water characteristics
Turn valves and place baffles in troughs to adjust the volume, depth, discharge, and temperature of water as specified.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Make electrical calculations
Determine the type, size and number of pieces of electrical equipment for a given distribution area by making complex electrical calculations.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Make health, safety and environment assessments
Execute health, safety and environmental assessments to ensure proper working environment and conditions.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage digital libraries
Collect, manage and preserve for permanent access digital content and offer to targeted user communities specialised search and retrieval functionality.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage educational institution's administration
Administer multiple activities of a school, university or other educational institution such as daily administrative operations.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage enrolment
Decide on the number of available places and select pupils or students on the basis of set criteria and according to national legislation.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage ICT legacy implication
Oversee the transfer process from a legacy (an outdated system) to a current system by mapping, interfacing, migrating, documenting and transforming data.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage musical staff
Assign and manage staff tasks in areas such as scoring, arranging, copying music and vocal coaching.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage restaurant service
Oversee the entire process of running the restaurant establishment such as managing employees and the mise-en-place.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage ship emergency plans
Organize and manage emergency operations, flooding, abandoning ship, survival at sea, search and rescue of shipwrecked, according to the ship's emergency plans, to ensure the…
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage standards for data exchange
Set and maintain standards for transforming data from source schemas into the necessary data structure of a result schema.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage the reception of raw materials for animal feeds
Ensuring procurement and reception of raw materials, planning and execution of production, as well as the loading and dispatching of animal feed.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage tourist groups
Monitor and guide tourists ensuring positive group dynamics and address areas of conflict and concern where they occur.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manage transport of goods from warehouse facilities
Know the goods transported from warehouse facilities.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Manufacture ingredients
Manufacture ingredients such as spices, additives and vegetables.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Model electromechanical systems
Model and simulate an electromechanical system, product, or component so that an assessment can be made of the viability of the product and so the physical parameters can be…
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Monitor aviation meteorology
Monitor and interpret the information provided by weather stations to anticipate conditions that may affect airports and flights.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Monitor casino finances
Monitor and review the finances and betting accounts of a casino.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Monitor paper reel
Overview the jumbo paper reel, which winds the paper at the right tension onto a core.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Monitor the farm environmental management plan
Identify environmental designations and directives that relate to a given farm and incorporate their requirements in to the farm planning process.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Monitor traffic flow
Monitor the traffic that passes by a certain point, like for instance a pedestrian crossing.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Monitor train schedules
Ensure train schedules are followed by monitoring and regulating train dispatch and arrival, in order to avoid schedule mismatches.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Negotiate lawyer's fee
Negotiate compensation for legal services in or out of court, such as hourly or flat-rate fees, with clients.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate dimmer equipment
Set up, connect and operate dimmer equipment (with plug and socket) in a live performance environment.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate distilling equipment
Operate the different parts of distilling equipment such as the pot, the distillation column, the lyne arm, the condenser, the distillate, and the aging barrels.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate heat treatment furnace
Operate or tend furnaces such as gas, oil, electric to heat treat castings in order to reach the correct mechanical properties.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate package processing equipment
Operate electric package processing equipment and control systems.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate railway control panels
Operate various types of railway control panels such as Individual Function Switch (IFS), One Control Switch (OCS) or Entrance Exit (NX).
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate railway vehicles
Drive railroad vehicles or other railway equipment in a competent and safe manner.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate relational database management system
Extract, store and verify information using database management systems based on the relational database model, which arranges data into tables of rows and columns, such as Oracle…
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Operate specialised equipment in emergency
Operate equipment such as external defibrillators and bag-valve mask resuscitators, spinal and traction splints and intravenous drips in advanced life-support environments, taking…
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Oversee mine planning activities
Direct, control and examine mine planning and surveying staff and activities.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Oversee record management
Control and oversee electronic records of an organisation throughout the records life-cycle.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Paint ship decks
Detect and remove rust using primers and sealants; paint vessel decks to fend off oxidation process.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Perform dimensionality reduction
Reduce the number of variables or features for a dataset in machine learning algorithms through methods such as principal component analysis, matrix factorization, autoencoder…
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Perform rail track inspections
Plan and implement regular inspections and investigations of the rail track system in order to provide optimal coverage of the railway network in a given area.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Perform street interventions in social work
Conduct outreach activities by providing direct information or counselling services to individuals in their neighbourhood or in the streets, usually targeted at youth or homeless…
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Plan new packaging designs
Come up with new ideas concerning the size, shape and colour of packaging.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Plot shipping navigation routes
Plot the navigation route of a vessel under the review of a superior deck officer.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Prepare alcoholic beverages
Make and serve alcoholic beverages according to the customer's wants.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Prevent casting adhesion
Prevent the casting sticking to the moulds by brushing the mould with oil, hot wax or graphite solution, according to the specification of each casting components.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Prevent undesired changes to sound design
Adapt your maintenance of sound equipment to prevent undesired changes in the sound balance and design, safeguarding the overall production quality.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Prevent work accidents
Application of specific risk assessment measures to prevent risks and threats at work.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Process order forms with customer's information
Obtain, enter and process customers' names, addresses and billing information.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Procure hospitality products
Acquire goods or services from an outside external source.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Provide advice to hatcheries
Provide recommendations for the installation and well functioning of hatcheries.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Provide basic support to patients
Support patients and citizens with activities of daily living, such as hygiene, comfort, mobilisation and feeding needs.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Provide information on train routes
Know principal train routes and quickly search for relevant information to respond to customer questions.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Provide pipe bedding
Lay bedding in a trench to stabilise a pipe if called for.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Read care labels
Sort clothing items according to their colour or fabric by inspecting and reading care tags or labels.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Read job ticket instructions
Understand instructions from the cards accompanying job orders and set up or run the machine based on these statements.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Read technical datasheet
Read and understand the technical specifications describing the characteristics and functionality mode of a product, component or machine, usually provided by the manufacturer.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Record furnace operations
Log furnace time and production data.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Refine edible oils
Refine edible oils to make them suitable for human consumption.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Rehearse role
Study lines and actions.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Replace faucets
Remove taps using the appropriate tool, such as a tap wrench, a monkey wrench or a ratcheting wrench.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Report on fuel distribution incidents
Compose forms on the findings of pumping system temperature and water level checks etc.; produce reports detailing any problems or incidents that occurred.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Review translation works
Read thoroughly translated works in order to ensure accuracy and achievement of the purpose.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Safeguard biodiversity
Protect biodiversity among animals, plants and microorganism by adopting environmentally sustainable actions such as maintaining natural habitats and preserving nature.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Safely handle metal wire under tension
Handle fabricated, drawn metal wire safely by calculating the risks and dangers of its unreliable nature due to spring force and resilience.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Seal wires
Fasten and insulate electric or communications wires or cables.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
- Select musical performers
Organise auditions and select performers for musical performances.
practical skillneeded in 4 occupations
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