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U.S. Department of Labor
Domeniu: Government; Labor
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Imigran berkulit putih dari Eropa yang membayar untuk perjalanannya ke Dunia Baru dengan bekerja sebaga pelayan untuk periode waktu tertentu Juga dikenal sebagai seorang dengan keinginan bebas
Industry:Labor
Upah yang diekspresikan dalam istilah apa yang bisa terbeli dengan dollar yang sekarang Metode yang umum dari menentukan kekuatan pembeliannya melalui Indeks Pembelian Pelanggan
Industry:Labor
Prosedur dimana persetujuan serikat didapatkan di pabrik-pabrik pada masa 1930an Dibanding untuk dipaksa untuk berdemonstrasi ntuk mendapatkan pengakuan dari serikat, Undang-undang Wagner yang baru menyediakan metode pemilikan representasi serikat dimana dilakukan oleh Badan Hubungan Ketenagakerjaan Nasional
Industry:Labor
A professional who compiles security transaction records and receives and delivers securities to and from trust vault. Responsibilities include: * Opens combinations on cabinets in vault. * Examines securities deposited for safekeeping, verifies descriptions and signatures, and files securities according to customer names and account number. * Records securities transactions including purchases, exchanges, and stock splits to maintain control of customer accounts. * Releases securities from vault upon authorized request. * Acts as agent for bank by observing bank auditors auditing securities in vault. * May examine collateral to ensure conformity with loan specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages retail store engaged in selling specific line of merchandise, such as groceries, meat, liquor, apparel, jewelry, or furniture; related lines of merchandise, such as radios, televisions, or household appliances; or general line of merchandise, performing following duties personally or supervising employees performing duties. Responsibilities include: * Plans and prepares work schedules and assigns employees to specific duties. * Formulates pricing policies on merchandise according to requirements for profitability of store operations. * Coordinates sales promotion activities and prepares, or directs workers preparing, merchandise displays and advertising copy. * Supervises employees engaged in sales work, taking of inventories, reconciling cash with sales receipts, keeping operating records, or preparing daily record of transactions for accountant , or performs work of subordinates, as needed. * Orders merchandise or prepares requisitions to replenish merchandise on hand. * Ensures compliance of employees with established security, sales, and record keeping procedures and practices. * May answer customer's complaints or inquiries. * May lock and secure store. * May interview, hire, and train employees. * May be designated according to specific line of merchandise sold, such as women's apparel or furniture; related lines of merchandise, such as camera and photographic supplies, or gifts, novelties, and souvenirs; type of business, such as mail order establishment or auto supply house; or general line of merchandise, such as sporting goods, drugs and sundries, or variety store.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities of chamber of commerce to promote business, industrial and job development, and civic improvements in community. Responsibilities include: * Administers programs of departments and committees which perform such functions as providing members economic and marketing information, promoting economic growth and stability in community, and counseling business organizations and industry on problems affecting local economy. * Coordinates work with that of other community agencies to provide public services. * Writes and gives speeches to government, and business organizations to create greater understanding between community, government, and business organizations. * Prepares and submits annual budget to elected official for approval. * Studies governmental legislation, taxation, and other fiscal matters to determine effect on community interests, and makes recommendations based on organizational policy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides fare information to passengers traveling on nonscheduled or chartered motor trips, using rate tables. Responsibilities include: * Interviews customer or reviews written requests to obtain data on proposed trips. * Studies maps to select or lay out and measure travel route. * Refers to rate tables to gather rate data considering such items as type of vehicle, distance, destination, estimated travel and waiting time, cost of tolls, and passenger or freight service. * Computes rates, using calculator. * Prepares written report on rates or informs customer orally. * May arrange travel accommodations for tourists (travel clerk).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages establishment engaged in purchasing, wholesaling, and distributing merchandise, such as furniture and home furnishings, construction materials and supplies, metals and minerals, electrical goods, drugs and drug proprietaries, groceries and foodstuffs, and professional equipment and supplies to retailers, industrial and commercial consumers, or professional personnel. Responsibilities include: * Estimates stock requirements based on sales orders, inventory, projected volume of sales, and current condition of economy. * Authorizes purchase of merchandise based on estimates. * Directs assembly of and storing of merchandise by workers, filling of orders, and distribution to customers according to sales orders. * Directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in wholesaling merchandise and extending credit to purchasers. * Advises customers concerning current and future market conditions and availability of merchandise. * Workers are classified according to type of merchandise, product, or material wholesaled and distributed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and computes loan or surrender value of life insurance policy, using calculator, and rate books and tables. Responsibilities include: * Computes amount payable to policyholder who drops insurance, allows insurance to lapse, or requests loan on policy, considering factors, such as unclaimed dividends, premiums paid in advance, length of time held, and principal sum (loan value), using calculator. * Records values on sheet for preparation of correspondence to policyholder and entry onto master file. * When working on dropped policies and policyholder requests full cash value, is known as Cash-Surrender Calculator. * When working on dropped policies and policyholder does not request full cash value, prorates cash value to determine time policy may be kept in force and is known as Extended-Insurance Clerk. * When working on policy loans, calculates repayments, using interest tables, and is known as Policy-Loan Calculator. * May specialize in data related to pension plans and life insurance, such as premiums, dividends, retirements, and death benefits, and be designated Calculation Clerk. * May verify and recompute calculations made by other workers and be designated Calculation Reviewer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates electronically controlled sound reproducing and photographic equipment to record seismic waves from magnetic tape recordings of explosions reflected or refracted from subsurface strata. Responsibilities include: * Starts equipment and moves controls to align adjacent recordings uniformly on positive photographic film, following tracings of wave form shown on indicator. * Verifies identification data on magnetic tape container to ensure specified order of sound reproduction. * Clamps magnetic tape around drum of sound reproducer, starts machine, and observes wave form on oscillograph to detect malfunctions. * May develop and print photographic recordings in darkroom. * May test circuits, resistors, transistors, and related equipment parts, using schematic drawings, wiring diagrams, and electronic test equipment. * May replace defective parts and repair faulty connections, using soldering iron.
Industry:Professional careers