| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Conservation Scientist |
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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- Initiate, schedule, and conduct annual audits and compliance checks of program implementation by local government.
- Construct historical, scientific, and nature visitor-center displays.
- Confer with park staff to determine subjects and schedules for park programs.
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| Biological Scientist |
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
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- Maintain accurate laboratory records and data.
- Instruct medical students, graduate students, or others in methods or procedures for diagnosis and management of genetic disorders.
- Plan curatorial programs for species collections that include acquisition, distribution, maintenance, or regeneration.
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| Animal Behaviorist |
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
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- Perform administrative duties such as fundraising, public relations, budgeting, and supervision of zoo staff.
- Make recommendations on management systems and planning for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large to explore options.
- Study characteristics of animals such as origin, interrelationships, classification, life histories and diseases, development, genetics, and distribution.
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