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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who recruits independent sales agents, insurance in field and maintains contact between agent and home office. Responsibilities include: * Selects sales agent, insurance, based on experience with other insurance companies. * Drafts contract between agent and company. * Advises agent on matters pertaining to conduct of business, such as cancellations, overdue accounts, and new business prospects. * May gather information for underwriter. * When working in life insurance, is designated Brokerage Manager.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of area employers in setting up local government funded program within establishments to help employees who are not functioning at satisfactory levels of job performance due to alcoholism or other behavioral medical problems. Responsibilities include: * Writes and prepares newspaper advertisements, newsletters, and questionnaires and speaks before community groups to promote employee assistance program within business community. * Analyzes character and type of business establishments in area, and compiles list of prospective employers appropriate for implementing assistance program. * Contacts prospective employers, explains program and fees, points out advantages of program, and reaches agreement with interested employers on extent of proposed program. * Develops program within establishment. * Establishes committee composed of company officials and workers to develop statement of employee assistance program and policy and procedures. * Plans and conducts training sessions for company officials to develop skills in identifying and handling employees troubled by alcoholism or other personal problems. * Assists employer in setting up in-plant educational program to prevent alcoholism, using posters, pamphlets, and films, and establishes referral network providing for in-plant and out-of-plant group or individual counseling for troubled employees. * Confers with team member of assistance program who provides counseling regarding planning and progress of counseling components. * Confers with staff of employee assistance program regarding progress and evaluation of current programs and proposals for developing new programs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of instructors engaged in training employees or customers of industrial or commercial establishment. Responsibilities include: * Confers with managers, instructors, or customer's representative to determine training needs. * Assigns instructors to conduct training. * Schedules classes, based on availability of classrooms, equipment, and instructors. * Evaluates training packages, including outline, text, and handouts written by instructors. * Assigns instructors to in-service or out-service training classes to learn new skills as needed. * Monitors budget to ensure that training costs do not exceed allocated funds. * Writes budget report listing training costs, such as instructors' wages and equipment costs, to justify expenditures. * Attends meetings and seminars to obtain information useful to training staff and to inform management of training programs and goals. * Monitors instructors during lectures and laboratory demonstrations to evaluate performance. * May perform other duties as described under supervisor master title. * May develop and conduct training programs for employees or customers of industrial or commercial establishment (instructor, technical training ).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and conducts programs to train employees or customers of industrial or commercial establishment in installation, programming, safety, maintenance, and repair of machinery and equipment, such as robots, $T3programmable controllers,$T1 and $T3robot controllers,$T1 following manuals, specifications, blueprints, and schematics, and using handtools, measuring instruments, and testing equipment. Responsibilities include: * Confers with management and staff or technical training coordinator to determine training objectives. * Writes training program, including outline, text, handouts, and tests, and designs laboratory exercises, applying knowledge of electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and programming, and following machine, equipment, and tooling manuals. * Schedules classes based on classroom and equipment availability. * Lectures class on safety, installation, programming, maintenance, and repair of machinery and equipment, following outline, handouts, and texts, and using visual aids, such as graphs, charts, videotape, and slides. * Demonstrates procedures being taught, such as programming and repair, applying knowledge of electrical wire color coding, programming, electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, and pneumatics, using handtools, measuring instruments, and testing equipment, and following course outline. * Observes trainees in laboratory and answers trainees' questions. * Administers written and practical exams and writes performance reports to evaluate trainees' performance. * Participates in meetings, seminars, and training sessions to obtain information useful to training facility and integrates information into training program. * May repair electrical and electronic components of robots in industrial establishments. * May install, program, maintain, and repair robots in customer's establishment (field service technician ). * May be designated according to subject taught as Instructor, Programmable Controllers; Instructor, Robotics.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and conducts programs to train employees or customers of industrial or commercial establishment in installation, programming, safety, maintenance, and repair of machinery and equipment, such as robots, $T3programmable controllers,$T1 and $T3robot controllers,$T1 following manuals, specifications, blueprints, and schematics, and using handtools, measuring instruments, and testing equipment. Responsibilities include: * Confers with management and staff or technical training coordinator to determine training objectives. * Writes training program, including outline, text, handouts, and tests, and designs laboratory exercises, applying knowledge of electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and programming, and following machine, equipment, and tooling manuals. * Schedules classes based on classroom and equipment availability. * Lectures class on safety, installation, programming, maintenance, and repair of machinery and equipment, following outline, handouts, and texts, and using visual aids, such as graphs, charts, videotape, and slides. * Demonstrates procedures being taught, such as programming and repair, applying knowledge of electrical wire color coding, programming, electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, and pneumatics, using handtools, measuring instruments, and testing equipment, and following course outline. * Observes trainees in laboratory and answers trainees' questions. * Administers written and practical exams and writes performance reports to evaluate trainees' performance. * Participates in meetings, seminars, and training sessions to obtain information useful to training facility and integrates information into training program. * May repair electrical and electronic components of robots in industrial establishments. * May install, program, maintain, and repair robots in customer's establishment (field service technician ). * May be designated according to subject taught as Instructor, Programmable Controllers; Instructor, Robotics.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and conducts training programs for employees of industrial, commercial, service, or government establishment. Responsibilities include: * Confers with management to gain knowledge of work situation requiring training for employees to better understand changes in policies, procedures, regulations, and technologies. * Formulates teaching outline and determines instructional methods, utilizing knowledge of specified training needs and effectiveness of such methods as individual training, group instruction, lectures, demonstrations, conferences, meetings, and workshops. * Selects or develops teaching aids, such as training handbooks, demonstration models, multimedia visual aids, computer tutorials, and reference works. * Conducts training sessions covering specified areas such as those concerned with new employee orientation, on-the-job training, use of computers and software, apprenticeship programs, sales techniques, health and safety practices, public relations, refresher training, promotional development, upgrading, retraining displaced workers, and leadership development. * Tests trainees to measure progress and to evaluate effectiveness of training. * May specialize in developing instructional software.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and conducts training programs for employees of industrial, commercial, service, or government establishment. Responsibilities include: * Confers with management to gain knowledge of work situation requiring training for employees to better understand changes in policies, procedures, regulations, and technologies. * Formulates teaching outline and determines instructional methods, utilizing knowledge of specified training needs and effectiveness of such methods as individual training, group instruction, lectures, demonstrations, conferences, meetings, and workshops. * Selects or develops teaching aids, such as training handbooks, demonstration models, multimedia visual aids, computer tutorials, and reference works. * Conducts training sessions covering specified areas such as those concerned with new employee orientation, on-the-job training, use of computers and software, apprenticeship programs, sales techniques, health and safety practices, public relations, refresher training, promotional development, upgrading, retraining displaced workers, and leadership development. * Tests trainees to measure progress and to evaluate effectiveness of training. * May specialize in developing instructional software.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who establishes and maintains working relationships with local employers to promote use of public employment programs and services. Responsibilities include: * Contacts employers new to area or company requiring revisit and arranges appointment to visit company representative or employer responsible for hiring workers. * Establishes rapport between Employment Service and company to promote use of agency programs and services. * Confers with employer to resolve problems, such as local employment office effectiveness, employer complaints, and alternative employer actions for recruiting qualified applicants. * Answers employer questions concerning Employment Service programs or services available. * Solicits employers to list job openings with Employment Service. * Receives job orders from employers by phone or in person and records information to facilitate selection and referral process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interviews job applicants to select people meeting employer qualifications. Responsibilities include: * Reviews employment applications and evaluates work history, education and training, job skills, compensation needs, and other qualifications of applicants. * Records additional knowledge, skills, abilities, interests, test results, and other data pertinent to selection and referral of applicants. * Reviews job orders and matches applicants with job requirements, utilizing manual or computerized file search. * Informs applicants of job duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, work schedules and working conditions, company and union policies, promotional opportunities, and other related information. * Refers selected applicants to person placing job order, according to policy of organization. * Keeps records of applicants not selected for employment. * May perform reference and background checks on applicants. * May refer applicants to vocational counseling services. * May conduct or arrange for skills, intelligence, or psychological testing of applicants. * May evaluate selection and placement techniques by conducting research or follow-up activities and conferring with management and supervisory personnel. * May specialize in interviewing and referring certain types of personnel, such as professional, technical, managerial, clerical, and other types of skilled or unskilled workers. * May search for and recruit applicants for open positions (personnel recruiter ). * May contact employers in writing, in person, or by telephone to solicit orders for job vacancies for clientele or for specified applicants and record information about job openings on job order forms to describe duties, hiring requirements, and related data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interprets hospital and medical insurance services and benefits to contracting hospital personnel. Responsibilities include: * Discusses contract provisions and hospital claims forms with medical and hospital personnel. * Instructs hospital clerical staff in resolving problems concerning billing and admitting procedures. * Writes reports outlining hospital and contract benefits for incorporation into brochures and pamphlets. * May travel from city to city.
Industry:Professional careers