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A professional who tends machine that automatically seals envelopes and prints postage and postmark onto envelopes or tape to be affixed onto packages. Responsibilities include:
* Turns indicator dials to specified letters and numbers to be printed.
* Starts machine and positions envelopes onto feed tray or secures roll of tape on machine spindles.
* Removes postmarked envelopes or tape.
* May weigh articles to determine required postage, using scale and postal code book.
* May be designated according to particular function as Canceling-Machine Operator; Envelope-Sealing-Machine Operator; Stamping-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes cost of customers' laundry by pricing each item on customers' lists, using adding machine, calculating machine, or comptometer. May keep inventory of customers' laundered articles. May prepare statements to be sent to customers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who selects and cultivates yeast cells to develop pure yeast culture for brewing beer and malt liquors. Responsibilities include:
* Samples beer in fermenting stages to select specimens containing yeast cells having specific reproduction characteristics.
* Prepares cover glasses and slides with smears of yeast preparation taken from beer samples.
* Examines slides under microscope to isolate specific cells and record position of cells.
* Incubates slides to allow colonies of cells to form.
* Inoculates cells with hopped wort, using sterile needle to transfer cells from slides to flasks containing wort.
* Cultivates cells in flasks by incubation and propagates single cell cultures by transferring cells to additional flasks.
* Siphons developing yeast culture from flasks to tanks and pumps yeast culture from tanks to sterile barrels.
* Seals barrels with sterile bung and packs sealed barrels in dry ice to prevent yeast degeneration.
* Cleans and sterilizes equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts spectrographic examinations of metal and mineral samples under established procedures, using spectrograph, spectrometer, densitometer, and other measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes densitometer or spectrometer readings to measure density ratio of specific elements in sample.
* Computes percentage composition of sample by comparing intensity ratio with standard charts.
* Investigates deviations from standard, performing further examinations by other spectrographic procedures and methods to establish degree of conformance to standard.
* Records quantitative determination, procedure, and standard applied for each sample examined.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages affairs of entertainers by participating in negotiations with agents and others concerning contracts and business matters affecting clients' interests, and advises clients on career development and advancement. Responsibilities include:
* Represents client in negotiations with officials of unions, motion picture or television studios, theatrical productions, or entertainment house, for favorable contracts and financial fees to be received for engagements.
* Advises client concerning contracts, wardrobe, and effective presentation of act, according to knowledge of show business.
* Procures services of professional personnel in particular phase of show business to create or design format of original act, or prepare special material for new act to advance client's career.
* Manages business details of tours and engagements, such as obtaining reservations for transportation and hotel accommodations, and making disbursements for road expenses.
* Represents client in public contacts, such as handling fan mail, telephone inquiries, and requests for personal appearances.
* May audition new talent for representation purposes.
* May procure bookings for clients.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates research and development activities for organizational products, services, or ideologies. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and formulates aspects of research and development proposals, such as objective or purpose of project, applications that can be utilized from findings, costs of project, and equipment and human resource requirements.
* Reviews and analyzes proposals submitted to determine if benefits derived and possible applications justify expenditures.
* Approves and submits proposals considered feasible to management for consideration and allocation of funds or allocates funds from department budget.
* Develops and implements methods and procedures for monitoring projects, such as preparation of records of expenditures and research findings, progress reports, and staff conferences, in order to inform management of current status of each project.
* May recruit, hire, and train department staff, evaluate staff performance, and develop goals and objectives for staff.
* May negotiate contracts with consulting firms to perform research studies.
* May specialize in one type of research and be designated Director, Marketing Research and Analysis; Director, Product Research and Development.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and establishes security procedures for company engaged in manufacturing products or processing data or material for federal government. Responsibilities include:
* Studies federal security regulations and restrictions relative to company operations.
* Directs activities of personnel in developing company security measures which comply with federal regulations.
* Consults with local, district, or other federal representatives for interpretation or application of particular regulations applying to company operations.
* Prepares security manual outlining and establishing measures and procedures for handling, storing, safekeeping, and destroying classified records and documents, and for granting company personnel or visitors access to classified material or entry into restricted areas.
* Directs and coordinates activities of personnel in revising or updating security measures due to new or revised regulations.
* May request deviations from restrictive regulations that interfere with normal operations.
* May interview and hire applicants to fill security guard vacancies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in recording hours of work, processing time records, compiling payroll statistics, maintaining payroll control records, and calculating payrolls. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews, or directs review of, personnel records to determine names, rates of pay, and occupations of newly hired workers, and changes in wage rates and occupations of employees on payroll.
* Records, or directs recording of, new or changed pay rates in payroll register or computer files.
* Directs computation of pay according to company policy.
* Directs compilation and preparation of other payroll data, such as pension, insurance, and credit union payments.
* Reviews and approves payroll deductions.
* Interprets company policies and government regulations affecting payroll procedures.
* Directs preparation of government reports.
* Reviews payroll to ensure accuracy.
* May direct activities of workers engaged in computing costs of production, such as labor and equipment.
* Performs duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who enters data, such as program and commercial formats, into computer to prepare daily operations schedules and advance program log for newspapers, magazines, traffic or broadcast department. Responsibilities include:
* Provides for clearance and rotation of spot-commercial films and slides for television programs, and performs related clerical duties for director program .
* May compose courtesy, apology, and stay-tuned announcements, using computer.
* May review overnight television ratings to determine number of viewers watching television programs containing station promotions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes and records statistical, accounting and other numerical data, utilizing knowledge of mathematics and using machine that automatically performs mathematical processes, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and extraction of roots. Responsibilities include:
* Calculates statistical, accounting, and other numerical data, using calculating machine, and posts totals to records, such as inventories and summary sheets.
* May verify computations made by other workers.
* May be designated according to subject matter as Formula Figurer; Premium-Note Interest-Calculator Clerk.
* May compute and record inventory data from audio transcription, using transcribing machine and calculator, and be designated Inventory Transcriber.
* May be designated according to type of computations made as Weight Calculator.
Industry:Professional careers
