Natural Sciences Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, statistics, and research and development in these fields.

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

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

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

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

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

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Hire, supervise, or evaluate engineers, technicians, researchers, or other staff.

Design or coordinate successive phases of problem analysis, solution proposals, or testing.

Plan or direct research, development, or production activities.

Review project activities and prepare and review research, testing, or operational reports.

Confer with scientists, engineers, regulators, or others to plan or review projects or to provide technical assistance.

Develop client relationships and communicate with clients to explain proposals, present research findings, establish specifications, or discuss project status.

Determine scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management and make detailed plans to accomplish these goals.

Develop or implement policies, standards, or procedures for the architectural, scientific, or technical work performed to ensure regulatory compliance or operations enhancement.

Recruit personnel or oversee the development or maintenance of staff competence.

IBM SPSS Statistics

StataCorp Stata

The MathWorks MATLAB

Microsoft PowerPoint

IBM Lotus 1-2-3

Microsoft Excel

Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop

Graphics software

Microsoft Access

Structured query language SQL

ESRI ArcGIS software

Microsoft Outlook

Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat

Integrated development environment IDE software

SAP software

Laptop computers

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Liquid crystal display LCD video projectors

Color plotters

Natural Resources Specialist

Working for the government is awful because it takes so long for anything to get done, and nobody actually works hard or cares.

Ellen Reyes

Natural Resources Specialist

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Government

Engineering

Accomplishing Goals

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Ellen Reyes

Natural Resources Specialist

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Government

Engineering

Accomplishing Goals

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

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