| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Veterinary Assistant |
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
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- Perform accounting duties, including bookkeeping, billing customers for services, and maintaining inventories.
- Hold or restrain animals during veterinary procedures.
- Clean and maintain kennels, animal holding areas, examination and operating rooms, and animal loading/unloading facilities to control the spread of disease.
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| Animal Behaviorist |
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
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- Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.
- Prepare collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and study of development or disease.
- Oversee the care and distribution of zoo animals, working with curators and zoo directors to determine the best way to contain animals, maintain their habitats and manage facilities.
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| Veterinarian |
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
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- Train and supervise workers who handle and care for animals.
- Direct the overall operations of animal hospitals, clinics, or mobile services to farms.
- Treat sick or injured animals by prescribing medication, setting bones, dressing wounds, or performing surgery.
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