Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the General Office Occupations & Clerical Services field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. General Office Occupations & Clerical Services majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that General Office Occupations & Clerical Services majors need more than the average amount of Active Listening, Mathematics, Service Orientation, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Writing, Time Management, Judgment and Decision Making, Social Perceptiveness, Programming, Monitoring, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Coordination, Negotiation, Persuasion, Learning Strategies, Systems Analysis, Instructing, Systems Evaluation, Management of Personnel Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Operation and Control, Operations Analysis, Science, Technology Design, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for General Office Occupations & Clerical Services majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Active Listening is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Writing, Judgment and Decision Making, Service Orientation, Mathematics, Complex Problem Solving, Monitoring, Time Management, Active Learning, Social Perceptiveness, Coordination, Persuasion, Negotiation, Learning Strategies, Systems Analysis, Instructing, Systems Evaluation, Management of Personnel Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Programming, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Material Resources, Operation Monitoring, Operation and Control, Operations Analysis, Science, Technology Design, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.