Table 9 Knowledge, skill, and ability categories across occupations as defined by O*NET
Knowledge | Skill | Ability |
|---|---|---|
Administration and management | Active learning | Arm-hand steadiness |
Biology | Active listening | Auditory attention |
Building and construction | Complex problem solving | Category flexibility |
Chemistry | Coordination | Control precision |
Clerical | Critical thinking | Deductive reasoning |
Communications and media | Equipment maintenance | Depth perception |
Computers and electronics | Equipment selection | Dynamic flexibility |
Customer and personal service | Installation | Dynamic strength |
Design | Instructing | Explosive strength |
Economics and accounting | Judgment and decision making | Extent flexibility |
Education and training | Learning strategies | Far vision |
Engineering and technology | Management of financial resources | Finger dexterity |
English language | Management of material resources | Flexibility of closure |
Fine arts | Management of personnel resources | Fluency of ideas |
Food production | Mathematics | Glare sensitivity |
Foreign language | Monitoring | Gross body coordination |
Geography | Negotiation | Gross body equilibrium |
History and archeology | Operation and control | Hearing sensitivity |
Law and government | Operation monitoring | Inductive reasoning |
Mathematics | Operation analysis | Information ordering |
Mechanical | Persuasion | Manual dexterity |
Medicine and dentistry | Programming | Mathematical reasoning |
Personnel and human resources | Quality control analysis | Memorization |
Philosophy and theology | Reading comprehension | Multilimb coordination |
Physics | Repairing | Near vision |
Production and processing | Science | Night vision |
Psychology | Service orientation | Number facility |
Public safety and security | Social perceptiveness | Oral comprehension |
Sales and marketing | Speaking | Oral expression |
Sociology and anthropology | System analysis | Originality |
Telecommunications | System evaluation | Perceptual speed |
Therapy and counseling | Technology design | Peripheral vision |
Transportation | Time management | Problem sensitivity |
Troubleshooting | Rate control | |
Writing | Reaction time | |
Response orientation | ||
Selective attention | ||
Sound localization | ||
Spatial orientation | ||
Speech clarity | ||
Speech recognition | ||
Speed of closure | ||
Speed of limb movement | ||
Stamina | ||
Static strength | ||
Time sharing | ||
Trunk strength | ||
Visual color discrimination | ||
Visualization | ||
Wrist-finger speed | ||
Written comprehension | ||
Written expression |