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Job Activities

Learn about the most important job activities for Food Batchmakers. Also, find out how proficient you have to be in each job activity.
Importance*More Info
1.Getting Information90
2.Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings83
3.Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates73
Handling and Moving Objects73
5.Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events71
6.Controlling Machines and Processes70
7.Performing General Physical Activities65
8.Processing Information64
9.Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards61
10.Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information59
* Importance out of 100

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

Job Activity Scores

Getting Information
Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
90
39
Follow a standard blueprintReview a budgetStudy international tax laws
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
83
57
Check to see if baking bread is doneTest electrical circuitsCheck the status of a patient in critical medical care
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
73
44
Write brief notes to othersReport the results of a sales meeting to a supervisorCreate a videotaped presentation of a company's internal policies
Handling and Moving Objects
Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
73
84
Change settings on copy machinesArrange books in a libraryLoad boxes on an assembly line
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
71
57
Test an automobile transmissionJudge the acceptability of food productsDetermine the reaction of a virus to a new drug
Controlling Machines and Processes
Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
70
56
Operate a cash registerOperate a drilling rigOperate a precision milling machine
Performing General Physical Activities
Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
65
57
Walk between work stations in a small officePaint the outside of a houseClimb up and down poles to install electricity
Processing Information
Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
64
41
Tabulate the costs of parcel deliveriesCalculate the adjustments for insurance claimsCompile data for a complex scientific report
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
61
33
Review forms for completenessEvaluate a complicated insurance claim for compliance with policy termsMake a ruling in court on a complicated motion
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
59
31
Estimate the size of household furnishings to be cratedEstimate the time required to evacuate a city in the event of a major disasterEstimate the amount of natural resources that lie beneath the world's oceans