Machinists
Abilities
| % | Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 65.50 | 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. |
| 65.50 | 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. |
| 62.50 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
| 62.50 | 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. |
| 59.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
| 59.50 | 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. |
| 56.25 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
| 56.25 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
| 56.25 | Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
| 56.25 | 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. |
| 56.25 | 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 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
| 53.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| 53.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| 53.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
| 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 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
| 50.00 | Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. |
| 50.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.
