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Job Activities

Learn about the most important job activities for Dental Assistants. Also, find out how proficient you have to be in each job activity.
Importance*More Info
1.Assisting and Caring for Others89
2.Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates87
3.Documenting/Recording Information79
4.Developing and Building Teams74
5.Training and Teaching Others73
Getting Information73
7.Performing for or Working Directly with the Public72
8.Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others71
9.Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events69
10.Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others65
* Importance out of 100

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Job Activity Scores

Assisting and Caring for Others
Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
89
74
Help a coworker complete an assignmentAssist a stranded traveler in finding lodgingCare for seriously injured persons in an emergency room
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
87
65
Write brief notes to othersReport the results of a sales meeting to a supervisorCreate a videotaped presentation of a company's internal policies
Documenting/Recording Information
Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
79
51
Record the weights of trucks that use the highwaysDocument the results of a crime scene investigationMaintain information about the use of orbiting satellites for private industry communications
Developing and Building Teams
Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
74
47
Encourage two coworkers to stick with a tough assignmentLead an assembly team in an automobile plantLead a large team to design and build a new aircraft
Training and Teaching Others
Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
73
54
Give coworkers brief instructions on a simple procedural changeTeach a social sciences course to high school studentsDevelop and conduct training programs for a medical school
Getting Information
Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
73
48
Follow a standard blueprintReview a budgetStudy international tax laws
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
72
57
Tend a highway toll boothSell shoes in a popular shoe storePerform a monologue on national TV
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
71
60
Exchange information during a shift changeOrganize the cleanup crew after a major sporting eventAct as general contractor for building a large industrial complex
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
69
55
Test an automobile transmissionJudge the acceptability of food productsDetermine the reaction of a virus to a new drug
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
65
46
Interpret a blood pressure readingInterpret how foreign tax laws apply to U.S. exportsInterpret a complex experiment in physics for general audiences