Floral Designers
Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.
Sample of reported job titles:
Designer, Floral Artist, Floral Clerk, Floral Department Specialist, Floral Designer, Florist, Wedding Decorator
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Tasks
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Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.
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Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.
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Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers.
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Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.
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Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.
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Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.
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Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.
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Wrap and price completed arrangements.
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Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment.
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Unpack stock as it comes into the shop.
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Create and change in-store and window displays, designs, and looks to enhance a shop's image.
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Inform customers about the care, maintenance, and handling of various flowers and foliage, indoor plants, and other items.
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Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.
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Decorate, or supervise the decoration of, buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions.
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Conduct classes or demonstrations, or train other workers.
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Grow flowers for use in arrangements or for sale in shop.
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Technology Skills
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Accounting software — Transaction accounting software
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Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
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Internet browser software — Web browser software
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Inventory management software — Inventory tracking software
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Office suite software — Microsoft Office software
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Point of sale POS software
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Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
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Procurement software — Supply ordering software
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Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
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Time accounting software — Timekeeping software
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Web page creation and editing software — Facebook
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Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technologies are requirements most frequently included across all employer job postings.
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Work Activities
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Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
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Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
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Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
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Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
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Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
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Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
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Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
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Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
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Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
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Monitoring and Controlling Resources — Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
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Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
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Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
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Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
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Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
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Working with Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
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Detailed Work Activities
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Confer with clients to determine needs.
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Select materials or props.
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Arrange delivery of goods or services.
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Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
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Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.
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Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.
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Maintain records, documents, or other files.
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Provide educational information to the public.
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Arrange artwork, products, or props.
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Train others on work processes.
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Work Context
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Deal With External Customers — 86% responded “Extremely important.”
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Face-to-Face Discussions — 86% responded “Every day.”
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Structured versus Unstructured Work — 75% responded “A lot of freedom.”
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Contact With Others — 78% responded “Constant contact with others.”
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Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 61% responded “Continually or almost continually.”
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Work With Work Group or Team — 68% responded “Extremely important.”
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Electronic Mail — 72% responded “Every day.”
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Freedom to Make Decisions — 56% responded “A lot of freedom.”
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Coordinate or Lead Others — 47% responded “Extremely important.”
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Spend Time Standing — 20% responded “About half the time.”
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Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 64% responded “Every day.”
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Time Pressure — 52% responded “Every day.”
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Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 56% responded “High responsibility.”
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Physical Proximity — 92% responded “Moderately close (at arm's length).”
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Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 41% responded “High responsibility.”
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Letters and Memos — 46% responded “Every day.”
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Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 44% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
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Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 60% responded “About half the time.”
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Frequency of Decision Making — 39% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
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Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 27% responded “Every day.”
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Spend Time Walking and Running — 35% responded “About half the time.”
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Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 43% responded “Fairly important.”
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Job Zone
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- Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
- Education
- These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
- Related Experience
- Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Job Zone Examples
- These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, tellers, and dental laboratory technicians.
- SVP Range
- 3 months to 1 year of preparation (4.0 to < 6.0)
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Training & Credentials
- State training
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- Local training
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- Certifications
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- Apprenticeships
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Have a career path or location in mind? Visit Apprenticeship.gov
external site to find apprenticeship opportunities near you.
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Skills
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Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
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Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
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Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
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Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
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Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
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Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
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Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
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Knowledge
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Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
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Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
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Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
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Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
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English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
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Education
How much education does a new hire need to perform a job in this occupation? Respondents said:
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Abilities
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Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
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Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
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Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
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Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
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Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
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Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
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Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
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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).
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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).
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Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
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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.
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Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
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Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
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Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
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Interests
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Artistic — Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
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Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
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Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
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Work Values
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Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
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Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
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Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
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Work Styles
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Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
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Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
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Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
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Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
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Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
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Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
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Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
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Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
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Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
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Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
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Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
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Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
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Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
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Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
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Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
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Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
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Wages & Employment Trends
- Median wages (2021)
- $14.36 hourly, $29,880 annual
- State wages
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- Local wages
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- Employment (2021)
- 44,400 employees
- Projected growth (2021-2031)
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Decline (-2% or lower)
- Projected job openings (2021-2031)
- 3,800
- State trends
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- Top industries (2021)
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2021 wage data
external site and 2021-2031 employment projections
external site.
“Projected growth” represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2021-2031). “Projected job openings” represent openings due to growth and replacement.
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Job Openings on the Web
- State job openings
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- Local job openings
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