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Ability Areas

Learn about the most important abilities for Cooks, Fast Food. Also, find out how proficient you have to be in each ability.

Importance*More Info
1.Oral Comprehension69
2.Speech Recognition56
Trunk Strength56
Oral Expression56
5.Information Ordering53
6.Manual Dexterity50
Written Comprehension50
* Importance out of 100

Score Key
  Importance for success in this profession
  Level of proficiency needed

Ability Area Scores

Oral Comprehension
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
69
50
Understand a television commercialUnderstand a coach's oral instructions for a sportUnderstand a lecture on advanced physics
Speech Recognition
The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
56
43
Recognize the voice of a coworkerIdentify a former customer's voice over the telephoneUnderstand a speech presented by someone with a strange accent
Trunk Strength
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
56
43
Sit up in an office chairShovel snow for half an hourDo 100 sit-ups
Oral Expression
The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
56
41
Cancel newspaper delivery by phoneGive instructions to a lost motoristExplain advanced principles of genetics to college freshmen
Information Ordering
The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
53
38
Put things in numerical orderFollow the correct steps to make changeAssemble a nuclear warhead
Manual Dexterity
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
50
41
Screw a light bulb into a light socketPack oranges in crates as quickly as possiblePerform open heart surgery with surgical instruments
Written Comprehension
The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
50
41
Understand signs on the highwayUnderstand an apartment leaseUnderstand an instruction book on repairing missile guidance systems