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A professional who prepares final bills for mailing to gas and electric-power customers. Responsibilities include:
* Computes and prepares final bills, using adding machine and calculator.
* Keeps file of deposit certificates surrendered by customer and attaches certificates to final bills for refund of deposit.
* Reviews accounting records to ensure that all charges and credits are included in final bills.
* May compute interest due customers for amounts on deposit.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and maintains records of business transactions and office activities of establishment, performing variety of following or similar clerical duties and utilizing knowledge of systems or procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Copies data and compiles records and reports.
* Tabulates and posts data in record books.
* Computes wages, taxes, premiums, commissions, and payments.
* Records orders for merchandise or service.
* Gives information to and interviews customers, claimants, employees, and sales personnel.
* Receives, counts, and pays out cash.
* Prepares, issues, and sends out receipts, bills, policies, invoices, statements, and checks.
* Prepares stock inventory.
* Adjusts complaints.
* Operates office machines, such as typewriter, adding, calculating, and duplicating machines.
* Opens and routes incoming mail, answers correspondence, and prepares outgoing mail.
* May take dictation.
* May greet and assist visitors.
* May prepare payroll.
* May keep books.
* May purchase supplies.
* May operate computer terminal to input and retrieve data.
* May be designated according to field of activity or according to location of employment as Adjustment Clerk; Airport Clerk; Colliery Clerk; Death-Claim Clerk; Field Clerk.
* May be designated.
* Responsibilities include:
* Agency Clerk; Auction Clerk; Construction-Records Clerk; Shop Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and arranges route of circus for following season, coordinating date and location schedules. Responsibilities include:
* Obtains information about facilities of new locations to determine feasibility of presenting show.
* Consults with circus officials to arrange route and obtain approval of tour.
* Schedules dates of performance for each location, taking into consideration length of travel time to transport circus from one location to another, climatic conditions, budget, and previous year's attendance records.
* Rearranges tour in event of unexpected occurrences.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of workers engaged in providing services to passengers of railroad sleeping and lounge cars during trip. Responsibilities include:
* Collects tickets and fares from passengers.
* Supervises workers engaged in providing porter, maid, and meal services.
* Observes and talks with passengers to ascertain passengers are comfortable, and to answer passenger inquiries.
* Compiles record of tickets and money received, and destination of and accommodations furnished passengers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities to collect delinquent commercial loans. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews files of commercial loans in default to determine collateral held by bank.
* Writes letter to customer to demand payment of loan balance.
* Calls or visits customer to determine if repayment plan can be established.
* Computes repayment schedule, using calculator.
* Determines if status of customer's financial position prevents repayment of loan and justifies re-classifying loan as non-revenue producing.
* Initiates collateral liquidation when customer does not repay loan.
* Petitions court to transfer title and deeds of collateral to bank.
* Coordinates maintenance and repairs to property.
* Coordinates activities to maintain income flow related to seized assets, such as notifying renters to mail payments to financial institution.
* Calls real estate broker to initiate sale of real estate.
* Calls auctioneer or liquidation specialist to sell specified property, such as machines, equipment, and inventory at public auction.
* Specifies changes to bank records on value of loan.
* May testify at legal proceedings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides psychiatric social work assistance to mentally or emotionally disturbed patients of hospitals, clinics, and other medical centers, and to their families, collaborating with psychiatric and allied team in diagnosis and treatment plan. Responsibilities include:
* Investigates case situations and presents information to psychiatrist and psychologist, clinical and other members of health team, on patient's family and social background pertinent to diagnosis and treatment.
* Helps patients to respond constructively to treatment and assist in adjustment leading to and following discharge.
* Interprets psychiatric treatment to patient's family and helps to reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of psychiatric care and continuation of treatment.
* Serves as link between patient, psychiatric agency, and community.
* May work directly in treatment relationship with patients, individually or in groups, in consultation with psychiatrist.
* May refer patient or patient's family to other community resources.
* Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates calculator and typewriter to compile and prepare customer charges, such as labor and material costs. Responsibilities include:
* Reads computer printout to ascertain monthly costs, schedule of work completed, and type of work performed for customer, such as plumbing, sheet metal, and insulation.
* Computes costs and percentage of work completed, using calculator.
* Compiles data for billing personnel.
* Types invoices indicating total items for project and cost amounts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates persons, common carriers, and merchandise, arriving in or departing from the United States, to protect government and business interests and prevent irregular or prohibited importing and exporting. Responsibilities include:
* Develops sources of information to complete investigations of customs violations.
* Examines private and public records, interrogates and investigates persons, and uses technical and scientific devices to establish facts, verify data, and secure legal evidence.
* Determines investigative and arrest or seizure techniques to be used and directs activities of assisting agents.
* Analyzes and assembles facts and evidence.
* Seizes contraband, vehicles, and air or sea craft suspected of carrying smuggled merchandise.
* Arrests violators of customs and related laws.
* Institutes civil and criminal prosecutions.
* Investigates applications for duty refunds.
* Petitions for remission or mitigation of penalties.
* Testifies in administrative and judicial proceedings.
* Coordinates activities with other federal or state agencies to enforce customs and related laws.
* May be required to carry weapon.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, designs, and oversees construction and operation of nuclear fuels reprocessing systems. Responsibilities include:
* Performs research and experiments to determine acceptable methods of reclaiming various types of nuclear fuels.
* Designs nuclear fuel reclamation systems and equipment for pilot plants.
* Communicates with vendors and contractors, and computes cost estimates of reclamation systems.
* Writes project proposals and submits them to company review board.
* Studies safety procedures, guidelines, and controls, and confers with safety officials to ensure that safety limits are not violated in design, construction, or operation of systems and equipment.
* Oversees nuclear fuels reprocessing system construction and operation, conferring with construction supervisory and operating personnel.
* Tests system equipment and approves equipment for operation.
* Monitors operations to detect potential or inherent problems.
* Initiates corrective actions and orders plant shutdown in emergency situations.
* Identifies operational and processing problems and recommends solutions.
* Maintains log of plant operations, and prepares reports for review by plant officials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles records concerned with delivery or mail order distribution of newspapers or magazines to subscribers, carriers, or dealers and adjusts complaints. Responsibilities include:
* Examines delivery tickets and records number of newspapers or magazines delivered to each city carrier or dealer.
* Types changes and corrections in names and addresses of subscribers, carriers, and dealers on distribution lists.
* Writes or types receipts for mail order subscriptions and forwards them to customers.
* Examines subscription date file and sends form letters to solicit renewal of expiring subscriptions.
* Receives telephoned and written complaints from subscribers and notifies distributor.
* Sells back copies of publication as requested.
* When concerned with distribution of publications within city may be designated City-Distribution Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
