| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Animal Behaviorist |
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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- Study animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry.
- Study characteristics of animals such as origin, interrelationships, classification, life histories and diseases, development, genetics, and distribution.
- Make recommendations on management systems and planning for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large to explore options.
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| Veterinarian |
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
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- Educate the public about diseases that can be spread from animals to humans.
- Provide care to a wide range of animals or specialize in a particular species, such as horses or exotic birds.
- Drive mobile clinic vans to farms so that health problems can be treated or prevented.
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| Veterinary Assistant |
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
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- Administer anesthetics during surgery and monitor the effects on animals.
- Sell pet food and supplies to customers.
- Prepare surgical equipment, and pass instruments and materials to veterinarians during surgical procedures.
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