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A professional who traces animal genealogy to certify or establish individual pedigree.
* Consults charts, books, and breeding records to ascertain lineage, names, ownerships, and show or racing performance records of ancestors.
* Records data and issues certificates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cashes checks for patrons and provides information concerning racetrack activities. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives specified amounts of monies from money room for check-cashing funds.
* Examines patrons' credentials and cashes checks.
* Directs patrons to such facilities as betting and paying windows and food and beverage concessions.
* Resolves patrons' claims of winning tickets not honored by parimutuel-ticket cashier.
* Examines tickets under fluorescent light to verify watermark and establish validity.
* Confers with payment personnel to effect payment or refers disputed claims to supervisory personnel for resolution.
* Keeps records of customer complaints and suggestions regarding facilities and submits records to supervisory personnel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who writes racing information, such as betting odds, entries, and winning time, on paper sheets affixed to walls or on blackboards of bookmaking establishment.
* Works from stepladder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tears or cuts out marked articles or advertisements from newspapers and magazines, using knife or scissors.
* Records name of publication, page and location, date, and name of customer on label, and affixes label to clipping.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares documents, such as brochures, pamphlets, and catalogs, for microfilming, using paper cutter, photocopying machine, rubber stamps, and other work devices. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts documents into individual pages of standard microfilming size and format when allowed by margin space, using paper cutter or razor knife.
* Reproduces document pages as necessary to improve clarity or to reduce one or more pages into single page of standard microfilming size, using photocopying machine.
* Stamps standard symbols on pages or inserts instruction cards between pages of material to notify microfilm-camera operator of special handling, such as manual repositioning, during microfilming.
* Prepares cover sheet and document folder for material and index card for company files indicating information, such as firm name and address, product category, and index code, to identify material.
* Inserts material to be filmed in document folder and files folder for processing according to index code and filming priority schedule.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects publications, such as magazines, catalogs, and pamphlets for conformance to quality standards, and selects copies of highest quality for distribution to management, publishers, and clients according to distribution list. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews distribution list for specific publication in order to ascertain number of copies required for distribution.
* Examines overall appearance of copies received from production department for conformance to quality standards.
* Examines each page of copies for uniformity of margins, quality of multicolored and monocolored illustrations, missing pages, and other defects.
* Sorts copies with highest overall quality and routes stack to management.
* Selects copies which have highest quality reproductions of advertisements and feature articles, tags individual copies or bundles according to distribution sheet, and routes stacks to mailing room.
* Keeps records of copies distributed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who locates library materials, such as books, periodicals, and pictures for loan, and replaces material in shelving area (stacks) or files, according to identification number and title.
* Trucks or carries material between shelving area and issue desk.
* May clip premarked articles from periodicals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and promotes sale of new and custom-built homes for building contractor. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans and organizes sales promotion programs and techniques in cooperation with suppliers of household appliances, furnishings, and equipment.
* Locates and appraises undeveloped areas for building sites, based on evaluation of area market conditions.
* Interviews prospective clients and shows homes under construction to display construction features and quality of work.
* Reviews plans and specifications for custom-built homes with client and architect to clarify costs and construction details in preliminary negotiations for contract.
* Recommends construction features and available decorating options, such as cabinet installations, to aid client in formulating plans.
* Answers questions regarding work under construction.
* May assess clients' financial status to determine eligibility for financing home through contractor.
* May arrange for sale of client's present home.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells insurance to new and current clients. Respnsibilities include:
* Compiles lists of prospective clients to provide leads for additional business.
* Contacts prospective clients and explains features and merits of policies offered, recommending amount and type of coverage based on analysis of prospect's circumstances, and utilizing persuasive sales techniques.
* Calculates and quotes premium rates for recommended policies, using calculator and rate books.
* Calls on policyholders to deliver and explain policy, to suggest additions or changes in insurance program, or to make changes in beneficiaries.
* May collect premiums from policyholders and keep record of payments.
* Must hold license issued by state.
* May be designated according to type of insurance sold as Sales Agent, Casualty Insurance; Sales Agent, Fire Insurance; Sales Agent, Life Insurance; Sales Agent, Marine Insurance.
* May work independently selling variety of insurance, such as life, fire, casualty, and marine, for many companies and be designated Insurance Broker.
* May work independently selling for one company and be designated General Agent.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells insurance to new and current clients. Respnsibilities include:
* Compiles lists of prospective clients to provide leads for additional business.
* Contacts prospective clients and explains features and merits of policies offered, recommending amount and type of coverage based on analysis of prospect's circumstances, and utilizing persuasive sales techniques.
* Calculates and quotes premium rates for recommended policies, using calculator and rate books.
* Calls on policyholders to deliver and explain policy, to suggest additions or changes in insurance program, or to make changes in beneficiaries.
* May collect premiums from policyholders and keep record of payments.
* Must hold license issued by state.
* May be designated according to type of insurance sold as Sales Agent, Casualty Insurance; Sales Agent, Fire Insurance; Sales Agent, Life Insurance; Sales Agent, Marine Insurance.
* May work independently selling variety of insurance, such as life, fire, casualty, and marine, for many companies and be designated Insurance Broker.
* May work independently selling for one company and be designated General Agent.
Industry:Professional careers
