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% Subject Description
75.00 Oral Comprehension The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
75.00 Oral Expression The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
68.75 Written Comprehension The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
68.75 Speech Clarity The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
68.75 Problem Sensitivity The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
65.50 Near Vision The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
65.50 Speech Recognition The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
59.50 Deductive Reasoning The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
59.50 Information Ordering The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
53.00 Static Strength The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
53.00 Written Expression The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
53.00 Trunk Strength The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
53.00 Inductive Reasoning The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
50.00 Arm-Hand Steadiness The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
50.00 Category Flexibility The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
50.00 Fluency of Ideas The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
50.00 Far Vision The ability to see details at a distance.
50.00 Multilimb Coordination The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
50.00 Finger Dexterity The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
50.00 Manual Dexterity The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
50.00 Perceptual Speed The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
50.00 Visualization The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.



The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.

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