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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A professional who coordinates activities of clerical personnel in establishment or organization. Responsibilities include: * Analyses and organizes office operations and procedures, such as typing, bookkeeping, preparation of payrolls, flow of correspondence, filing, requisition of supplies, and other clerical services. * Evaluates office production, revises procedures, or devises new forms to improve efficiency of workflow. * Establishes uniform correspondence procedures and style practices. * Formulates procedures for systematic retention, protection, retrieval, transfer, and disposal of records. * Plans office layouts and initiates cost reduction programs. * Reviews clerical and personnel records to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness. * Prepares activities reports for guidance of management, using computer. * Prepares employee ratings and conducts employee benefit and insurance programs, using computer. * Coordinates activities of various clerical departments or workers within department. * May prepare organizational budget and monthly financial reports. * May hire, train, and supervise clerical staff. * May compile, store, and retrieve managerial data, using computer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of personnel of order-writing department. Responsibilities include: * Plans and initiates order-writing procedures, using knowledge of company products, pricing methods, and discount classifications. * Directs establishment and maintenance of customer order records, such as discount classifications, cost basis, special routing, and transportation information. * Supervises workers writing master orders used by production, shipping, invoicing, advertising, cost, and estimating departments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who enforces laws, regulations, and policies in state or national park. Responsibilities include: * Registers vehicles and visitors, collects fees, and issues parking and use permits. * Provides information pertaining to park use, safety requirements, and points of interest. * Directs traffic, investigates accidents, and patrols area to prevent fires, vandalism, and theft. * Cautions, evicts, or apprehends violators of laws and regulations. * Directs or participates in first aid and rescue activities. * May supervise workers engaged in construction and maintenance of park facilities and enforces standards of cleanliness and sanitation. * May compile specified park-use statistics, keep records, and prepare reports of area activities. * May train and supervise park workers and concession attendants. * May specialize in snow safety and avalanche control and be designated Snow Ranger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who enforces laws, regulations, and policies in state or national park. Responsibilities include: * Registers vehicles and visitors, collects fees, and issues parking and use permits. * Provides information pertaining to park use, safety requirements, and points of interest. * Directs traffic, investigates accidents, and patrols area to prevent fires, vandalism, and theft. * Cautions, evicts, or apprehends violators of laws and regulations. * Directs or participates in first aid and rescue activities. * May supervise workers engaged in construction and maintenance of park facilities and enforces standards of cleanliness and sanitation. * May compile specified park-use statistics, keep records, and prepare reports of area activities. * May train and supervise park workers and concession attendants. * May specialize in snow safety and avalanche control and be designated Snow Ranger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records and maintains birth and death certificates and communicable disease reports, and prepares statistical data and medical reports for city or county public health department. Responsibilities include: * Registers birth, death, and communicable disease statistics from information supplied by physicians, hospital personnel, funeral directors, and representatives from other agencies. * Analyzes cause of death statements and communicable disease reports for compliance with laws and local regulations, consistency, and completeness. * Contacts information sources concerning vital statistics and disease reports to resolve discrepancies and obtain additional information. * Makes certified copies of documents and issues permits to remove and bury bodies. * Prepares reports, such as epidemiological case history and morbidity report and keeps file of communicable disease cases. * Refers tuberculosis cases and contacts to appropriate health agencies for consultation, treatment referral, and assistance in disease control. * Obtains medical, statistical, and sociological data for use by workers in various public health departments. * Assists in maintaining statistical data file and medical information reference library.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who explains group insurance programs to promote sale of insurance to prospective clients and establishes bookkeeping system for insurance plan. Responsibilities include: * Explains types of insurance coverage, such as health, accident, life, or liability, and accounting documentation required by company, as requested by sales agent, insurance. * Plans and oversees incorporation of insurance program into a company's bookkeeping system. * Establishes client's method of payment. * May install accounting systems and resolve system problems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of engineering, tool design, purchasing, and other departments, to facilitate production or procurement of tooling. Responsibilities include: * Evaluates tooling orders received from production engineering department to determine whether tooling should be manufactured in-house or procured from outside vendor. * Examines blueprints to determine tool requirements and special materials or items to be ordered. * Calculates and records tool requirement data on tooling order, and routes order to tool design or purchasing department. * Prepares requisitions for items to be purchased. * Contacts tool room, purchasing, receiving, or other personnel to follow up on procurement or production activities and to expedite movement of tools between departments or vendors. * Maintains manual or computerized records of tooling procurement, status, and disposition information. * Examines tools and tool records to determine disposition of tools. * Processes requests for tool repair. * May transport tooling between departments or vendors to expedite handling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of engineering, tool design, purchasing, and other departments, to facilitate production or procurement of tooling. Responsibilities include: * Evaluates tooling orders received from production engineering department to determine whether tooling should be manufactured in-house or procured from outside vendor. * Examines blueprints to determine tool requirements and special materials or items to be ordered. * Calculates and records tool requirement data on tooling order, and routes order to tool design or purchasing department. * Prepares requisitions for items to be purchased. * Contacts tool room, purchasing, receiving, or other personnel to follow up on procurement or production activities and to expedite movement of tools between departments or vendors. * Maintains manual or computerized records of tooling procurement, status, and disposition information. * Examines tools and tool records to determine disposition of tools. * Processes requests for tool repair. * May transport tooling between departments or vendors to expedite handling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and arranges for cooperation with and participation in skill training program by private industry, agencies, and concerned individuals. Responsibilities include: * Organizes and coordinates recruiting, training, and placement of participants. * Contacts various service agencies on behalf of trainees with social problems and refers trainees to appropriate agencies to ensure trainees receive maximum available assistance. * Prepares periodic reports to monitor and evaluate progress of program.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists legislator in preparation of proposed legislation. Responsibilities include: * Conducts research into subject of proposed legislation and develops preliminary draft of bill. * Analyzes pending legislation and suggests to legislator action to be taken. * Briefs legislator on policy issues. * Attends committee meetings and prepares reports of proceedings. * Speaks with lobbyists, constituents, and members of press to gather and provide information on behalf of legislator. * Analyzes voting records of other legislators and political activity in legislator home district to derive data for legislator consideration. * Maintains liaison with government agencies affected by proposed or pending legislation. * Assists in campaign activities and drafts speeches for legislator.
Industry:Professional careers