Resources: Occupation Profiles A-Z

A

• Accountants and auditors
• Actors, directors, and producers
• Actuaries
• Adjusters, investigators, and collectors
• Administrative services and facility managers
• Administrative Support Occupations, Including Clerical
• Adult and vocational education teachers
• Advertising, marketing, and public relations managers
• Aerospace engineers
• Agricultural and food scientists
• Air traffic controllers
• Air transportation-related occupations
• Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
• Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
• Announcers
• Apparel workers
• Architects and surveyors
• Architects, except landscape and naval
• Archivists, curators, museum technicians, and conservators
• Assemblers
• Atmospheric scientists
• Automotive body repairers
• Automotive mechanics and service technicians

B

• Bank tellers
• Barbers, cosmetologists, and related workers
• Billing clerks and billing machine operators
• Bindery workers
• Biological and medical scientists
• Blue-collar worker supervisors
• Boilermakers
• Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
• Bricklayers and stonemasons
• Broadcast and sound technicians
• Brokerage clerks and statement clerks
• Budget analysts
• Busdrivers
• Butchers and meat, poultry, and fish cutters

C

• Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
• Carpenters
• Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers
• Cashiers
• Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers
• Chefs, cooks, and other kitchen workers
• Chemical engineers
• Chemists
• Chiropractors
• Civil engineers
• Cleaning, buildings, and grounds service
• Clergy
• Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
• Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
• College and university faculty
• Communications equipment operators
• Communications-related
• Computer operators
• Computer programmers
• Computer systems analysts, engineers, and scientists
• Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
• Computer, mathematical, and operations research
• Conservation scientists and foresters
• Construction and building inspectors
• Construction equipment operators
• Construction managers
• Construction Trades Occupations
• Correctional officers
• Cost estimators
• Counselors
• Counter and rental clerks
• Court reporters, medical transcriptionists, and stenographers

D

• Dancers and choreographers
• Demonstrators, product promoters, and models
• Dental assistants
• Dental hygienists
• Dental laboratory technicians
• Dentists
• Designers
• Diesel mechanics and service technicians
• Dietitians and nutritionists
• Dispatchers
• Drafters
• Drywall installers and finishers

E

• Economists and marketing research analysts
• Education administrators
• Electric power generating plant operators and power distributors and dispatchers
• Electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers
• Electrical and electronics engineers
• Electricians
• Electroneurodiagnostic technologists
• Electronic home entertainment equipment repairers
• Electronic semiconductor processors
• Electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
• Elevator installers and repairers
• Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
• Employment interviewers, private or public employment service
• Engineering technicians
• Engineering, natural science, and computer and information systems managers
• Engineers
• Engineers and engineering technicians
• Executive, Administrative, and Managerial Occupations

F

• Farm equipment mechanics
• Farmers and farm managers
• File clerks
• Financial managers
• Fire fighting occupations
• Fishers and fishing vessel operators
• Flight attendants
• Food and beverage service occupations
• Food preparation and beverage service
• Food processing
• Forestry, conservation, and logging occupations
• Funeral directors and morticians

G

• General managers and top executives
• Geologists, geophysicists, and oceanographers
• Glaziers
• Government chief executives and legislators
• Guards

H

• Handlers, Equipment Cleaners, Helpers, and Laborers
• Hazardous materials removal workers
• Health assessment and treating
• Health diagnosticians
• Health information technicians
• Health service
• Health services managers
• Health technologists and technicians
• Heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
• Home appliance and power tool repairers
• Home health and personal care aides
• Hotel managers and assistants
• Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
• Human resources clerks, except payroll and timekeeping
• Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists and managers
• Human service workers and assistants

I

• Industrial engineers, except safety engineers
• Industrial machinery repairers
• Industrial production managers
• Information clerks
• Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction
• Inspectors, testers, and graders
• Instructors and coaches, sports and physical training
• Insulation workers
• Insurance sales agents
• Insurance underwriters
• Interviewing and new accounts clerks

J

• Janitors and cleaners and institutional cleaning supervisors
• Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
• Job Opportunities in the Armed Forces

K

L

• Landscape architects
• Landscaping, groundskeeping, nursery, greenhouse, and lawn service occupations
• Lawyers and judicial workers
• Legal
• Librarians
• Library assistants and bookmobile drivers
• Library technicians
• Licensed practical nurses
• Life scientists
• Line installers and repairers
• Loan clerks and credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
• Loan counselors and officers

M

• Machinists and numerical control machine tool programmers
• Mail clerks and messengers
• Maintenance mechanics, general utility
• Management analysts
• Manufacturers' and wholesale sales representatives
• Marketing and Sales Occupations
• Material moving equipment operators
• Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing occupations
• Materials engineers
• Mathematicians
• Mechanical engineers
• Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
• Medical assistants
• Metalworking and plastics-working
• Metalworking and plastics-working machine operators
• Millwrights
• Mining engineers, including mine safety engineers
• Miscellaneous production occupations
• Mobile heavy equipment mechanics
• Motorcycle, boat, and small-engine mechanics
• Musical instrument repairers and tuners
• Musicians, singers, and related workers

N

• News analysts, reporters, and correspondents
• Nuclear engineers
• Nuclear medicine technologists
• Nursing and psychiatric aides

O

• Occupational therapists
• Occupational therapy assistants and aides
• Office and administrative support supervisors and managers
• Office clerks, general
• Operations research analysts
• Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
• Opticians, dispensing
• Optometrists
• Order clerks
• Other mechanics, installers, and repairers

P

• Painters and paperhangers
• Painting and coating machine operators
• Paralegals and legal assistants
• Payroll and timekeeping clerks
• Performing arts
• Personal service
• Pest controllers
• Petroleum engineers
• Pharmacists
• Pharmacy technicians and assistants
• Photographers and camera operators
• Photographic process workers
• Physical scientists
• Physical therapist assistants and aides
• Physical therapists
• Physician assistants
• Physicians
• Physicists and astronomers
• Plant and systems operators
• Plasterers and stucco masons
• Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
• Podiatrists
• Police and detectives
• Postal clerks and mail carriers
• Precision assemblers
• Prepress workers
• Preschool teachers and child care workers
• Printing
• Printing press operators
• Private detectives and investigators
• Private household workers
• Production Occupations
• Professional and Technical Occupations
• Property, real estate, and community association managers
• Protective service
• Protestant ministers
• Psychologists
• Public relations specialists
• Purchasing managers, buyers, and purchasing agents

Q

R

• Rabbis
• Radiologic technologists
• Rail transportation occupations
• Real estate agents and brokers
• Receptionists
• Records processing occupations
• Recreation workers
• Recreational therapists
• Registered nurses
• Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
• Respiratory therapists
• Restaurant and food service managers
• Retail sales worker supervisors and managers
• Retail salespersons
• Roman Catholic priests
• Roofers

S

• School teachers—Kindergarten, elementary, and secondary
• Science technicians
• Scientists and science technicians
• Secretaries
• Securities, commodities, and financial services sales representatives
• Service Occupations
• Services sales representatives
• Sheet metal workers and duct installers
• Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
• Shoe and leather workers and repairers
• Social and recreation workers
• Social scientists
• Social scientists, other
• Social workers
• Special education teachers
• Speech-language pathologists and audiologists
• Stationary engineers
• Statisticians
• Stock clerks
• Structural and reinforcing metal workers
• Surgical technologists
• Surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying technicians

T

• Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
• Teacher assistants
• Teachers and instructors, counselors, and library occupations
• Telecommunications equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers
• Textile machinery operators
• Textile, apparel, and furnishings
• Tool and die makers
• Transportation and Material Moving Occupations
• Travel agents
• Truckdrivers

U

• Upholsterers
• Urban and regional planners

V

• Veterinarians
• Veterinary assistants and nonfarm animal caretakers
• Visual artists
• Visual arts and design

W

• Water and wastewater treatment plant operators
• Water transportation occupations
• Welders, cutters, and welding machine operators
• Woodworking
• Word processors, typists, and data entry keyers
• Writers and editors, including technical writers

X

Y

Z