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Ability Areas

Learn about the most important abilities for Plating and Coating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic. Also, find out how proficient you have to be in each ability.

Importance*More Info
1.Control Precision66
2.Manual Dexterity53
3.Information Ordering50
* Importance out of 100

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

Ability Area Scores

Control Precision
The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
66
44
Adjust a room light with a dimmer switchAdjust farm tractor controlsDrill a tooth
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.
53
36
Screw a light bulb into a light socketPack oranges in crates as quickly as possiblePerform open heart surgery with surgical instruments
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).
50
39
Put things in numerical orderFollow the correct steps to make changeAssemble a nuclear warhead