Chief Executives

Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body. Plan, direct, or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Direct or coordinate an organization's financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency.

Appoint department heads or managers and assign or delegate responsibilities to them.

Analyze operations to evaluate performance of a company or its staff in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change.

Direct, plan, or implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity.

Prepare budgets for approval, including those for funding or implementation of programs.

Confer with board members, organization officials, or staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems.

Implement corrective action plans to solve organizational or departmental problems.

Direct human resources activities, including the approval of human resource plans or activities, the selection of directors or other high-level staff, or establishment or organization of major departments.

Establish departmental responsibilities and coordinate functions among departments and sites.

Preside over, or serve on, boards of directors, management committees, or other governing boards.

Microsoft Dynamics

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle PeopleSoft

SAP software

Mentimeter

Microsoft PowerPoint

ComputerEase construction accounting software

Fund accounting software

Intuit QuickBooks

Sage 50 Accounting

Halogen e360

Halogen ePraisal

Human resource information system (HRIS)

Infor SSA Human Capital Management

AdSense Tracker

Databox

Microsoft Access

Structured query language SQL

Email software

Listserv software

Microsoft Outlook

Lyris HQ Web-Analytics Solution

Nedstat Sitestat

Online advertising reporting software

HCSS HeavyBid

HCSS HeavyJob

Microsoft Project

Graphic presentation software

SmugMug Flickr

Blackbaud The Raiser's Edge

Oracle Siebel Server Sync

Smartphones

Laptop computers

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Personal digital assistants PDA

10-key calculators

Find out what problems people are having and solve them. If you do that, people will be willing to pay you. Once they are, turn your solution into a product and your product into a business. If you build a product too early, you risk building something people don't want. Validate first, then build.

Assume that it is inevitable. Not that you 'might' go but that you are going. Talk to counselors and older people who have been there and get their advice.

On a given day, I might be giving notes to our factory on the latest sample, writing a post for our blog, hiring a designer to create an infographic, and pitching a travel magazine on writing about us. No day is typical or repeated. Every day has unique challenges.

Co-Founder

You should stay in a stable, high-paying job at the #1 place to work in the country.

Fred Perrotta

Co-Founder

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Travel

Entrepreneurship

Problem Solving

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Challenges I Overcame

First-Generation College Student

Fred Perrotta

Co-Founder

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Travel

Entrepreneurship

Problem Solving

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is not related to what I studied. I'd recommend this path instead:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Challenges I Overcame

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