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

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

The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

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

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

The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

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

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Manicurists and Pedicurists

Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.

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 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 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 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

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 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

Job Zone Two: Some 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 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 principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

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 arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

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.

Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

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.

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

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

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

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Miscellaneous Personal Appearance Workers

Personal Care and Service Occupations

Personal Appearance Workers

Clean and sanitize tools and work environment.

Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush.

Maintain supply inventories and records of client services.

Shape and smooth ends of nails, using scissors, files, or emery boards.

Prepare nail cuticles with water and oil, using cuticle knives to push back cuticles and scissors or nippers to trim cuticles.

Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.

Remove previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.

Use rotary abrasive wheels to shape and smooth nails or artificial extensions.

Schedule client appointments and accept payments.

Assess the condition of clients' hands, remove dead skin, and massage hands.

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Cuticle knives

Cuticle scissors

Nail scissors

Nail scrub brushes

Nail nippers

Nail slicers

Callus shavers

Toe separators

Pumice stones

Foot baths

Pedicure carts

Ultraviolet UV sterilizers

Dry heat sterilizers

Credit card processing machines

Laptop computers

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

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

Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

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

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

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

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

Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.

Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.

How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)?

Every day

To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks physically close to other people?

Very close (near touching)

Moderately close (at arm's length)

How much does this job require making repetitive motions?

Continually or almost continually

More than half the time

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?

Contact with others most of the time

Contact with others about half the time

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

How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?

Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls

About half the time

Never

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

A lot of freedom

How frequently does your job require face-to-face discussions with individuals and within teams?

Manicurists and Pedicurists

Overview

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What Manicurists and Pedicurists Do

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Manicurists and Pedicurists

Overview

Career

What Manicurists and Pedicurists Do

Other Job Titles Manicurists and Pedicurists May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

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