| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Veterinarian |
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
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- Train and supervise workers who handle and care for animals.
- Conduct postmortem studies and analyses to determine the causes of animals' deaths.
- Perform administrative and business management tasks such as scheduling appointments, accepting payments from clients, budgeting, and maintaining business records.
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| Animal Behaviorist |
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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- Make recommendations on management systems and planning for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large to explore options.
- Disseminate information by writing reports and scientific papers or journal articles, and by making presentations and giving talks for schools, clubs, interest groups and park interpretive programs.
- Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.
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| Animal Scientist |
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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- Study effects of management practices, processing methods, feed, or environmental conditions on quality and quantity of animal products, such as eggs and milk.
- Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics.
- Determine genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, utilizing principles of genetics.
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