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The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

Hearing Aid Specialists

Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

Social

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

Investigative

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.

Conventional

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.

Realistic

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.

Enterprising

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.

Artistic

Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed

Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.

Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Actively looking for ways to help people.

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.

Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Miscellaneous Health Technologists and Technicians

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Health Technologists and Technicians

Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.

Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.

Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.

Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.

Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.

Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.

Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.

Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.

Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

HIMSA Noah

Otometrics OTOsuite

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Office software

Microsoft Word

Automatic impedance audiometers

Two-channel audiometers

Warble tone audiometers

Wide range audiometers

Caloric irrigators

Otoacoustic emissions equipment OAE

Portable auditory screeners

Probe microphones

Behind-the-ear hearing aids

In-the-ear hearing aids

Mini hearing aids

Programmable hearing aids

Ear probes

Electroacoustic impedance bridges

Handheld otoscopes

Video-otoscopes

Diagnostic tuning forks

Hearing aid vacuum systems

Mechanical stethoscopes

Sound booths

Two-channel amplifiers

Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.

Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.

Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.

Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.

How important is it to deal with external customers (as in retail sales) or the public in general (as in police work) in this job?

Deal With External Customers or the Public in General

Extremely important

How frequently does your job require you to use E-mail?

Every day

Once a week or more but not every day

How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?

Constant contact with others

Contact with others most of the time

How often is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?

How often does this job require working indoors in an environmentally controlled environment (like a warehouse with air conditioning)?

How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?

Once a month or more but not every week

How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?

A lot of freedom

Some freedom

What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?

Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results

Very important results

Important results

How much freedom does the worker have in determining the tasks, priorities, or goals of the job?

How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?

Hearing Aid Specialists

Overview

Career

What Hearing Aid Specialists Do

Other Job Titles Hearing Aid Specialists May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Hearing Aid Specialists

Overview

Career

What Hearing Aid Specialists Do

Other Job Titles Hearing Aid Specialists May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Hearing Aid Specialists

Majors Related to Career

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