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A professional who studies behavior of various fuels and fuel configurations in differentiated reactor environments to determine safest and most efficient usage of nuclear fuels, applying theoretical and experiential knowledge of reactor physics and thermal and metallurgical characteristics of nuclear fuels and fuel cell claddings. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes available data and consults with other scientists to determine parameters of experimentation and suitability of analytical models.
* Designs fuels behavior tests and coordinates activities of experimental research team in performance and analysis of test operations.
* Monitors test reactor indicators of factors such as neutron power level, coolant level, and vital pressure, temperature and humidity readings, and changes or modifies procedures to meet test goals.
* Synthesizes analyses of test results and prepares technical reports to disseminate findings and recommendations.
* Formulates equations that describe phenomena occurring during fissioning of nuclear fuels and develops analytical models for nuclear fuels research.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives and pays out money, and keeps records of money and negotiable instruments involved in financial transactions. Responsibilities include:
* Receives checks and cash for deposit, verifies amount, and examines checks for endorsements.
* Cashes checks and pays out money after verification of signatures and customer balances.
* Enters customers' transactions into computer to record transactions, and issues computer-generated receipts.
* Places holds on accounts for uncollected funds.
* Orders daily supply of cash, and counts incoming cash.
* Balances currency, coin, and checks in cash drawer at end of shift, using calculator, and compares totaled amounts with data displayed on computer screen.
* Explains, promotes, or sells products or services, such as travelers checks, savings bonds, money orders, and cashier's checks.
* May open new accounts.
* May remove deposits from, and count and balance cash in, automated teller machines and night depository.
* May accept utility bill and loan payments.
* May use typewriter, photocopier, and check protector to prepare checks and financial documents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates and maintains radio transmitter to broadcast radio and television programs. Responsibilities include:
* Moves switches to cut in power to units and stages of transmitter.
* Monitors lights on console panel to ascertain that components are operative and that transmitter is ready to emit signal.
* Turns controls to set transmitter on fm, am, or TV frequency assigned by Federal Communications Commission.
* Monitors signal emission and spurious radiations outside of licensed transmission frequency to ensure signal is not infringing on frequencies assigned other stations.
* Notifies broadcast studio when ready to transmit.
* Observes indicators and adjusts controls to maintain constant sound modulation and ensure that transmitted signal is sharp and clear.
* Maintains log of programs transmitted as required by Federal Communications Commission.
* Tests components of malfunctioning transmitter to diagnose trouble, using test equipment, such as oscilloscope, voltmeters, and ammeters.
* Disassembles and repairs equipment, using handtools (radio mechanic ).
* May converse with studio personnel to determine cause of equipment failure and to solve problem.
* May operate microwave transmitter and receiver to receive or send programs to or from other broadcast stations.
* Must possess license issued by Federal Communications Commission.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of city departments of public works and utilities. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with officials responsible for street and building construction and maintenance, and for supplying water, power, sanitation, or other services to coordinate use of human resources and equipment and to consolidate purchasing requests.
* Reviews preliminary budgets and adjusts items for conformance to anticipated needs.
* Attends city council meetings to present budgets, activity reports, and plans for future activities.
* Confers with suppliers and sellers and places orders for equipment, materials, and supplies.
* May hire, promote, and discipline employees of departments supervised.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and coordinates programs with agencies and groups concerned with social problems of community. Responsibilities include:
* Promotes and coordinates activities of agencies, groups, and individuals to meet identified needs.
* Studies and assesses strength and weakness of existing resources.
* Interprets needs, programs, and services to agencies, groups, and individuals involved and provides leadership and assistance.
* Prepares reports and disseminates information.
* Maintains contact with representatives of other organizations to exchange and update information on resources and services available.
* May write proposals to obtain government or private funding for projects designed to meet needs of community.
* May assist in budget preparation and presentation.
* May assist in raising funds.
* Works in specialized fields such as housing, urban renewal and redevelopment, and health or in public or voluntary coordinating agency, such as community welfare or health council, or combined fund raising and welfare planning council.
* Works with special groups such as elderly, financially disadvantaged, juvenile delinquents, or physically or mentally handicapped.
* Usually required to have degree from school of social work.
* May direct and coordinate activities of volunteers or practicum students.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transfers funds or securities and maintains records of transactions, using computer. Responsibilities include:
* Types, transmits, and receives funds transfer messages on computer terminal to or from other banks and Federal Reserve Bank.
* Records funds or securities transferred and disposition, using computer.
* May maintain file of customers requiring daily transfer of funds or securities.
* May verify or assign code number to telecommunication messages.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aids parents with child rearing problems and children and youth with difficulties in social adjustments. Responsibilities include:
* Investigates home conditions to protect children from harmful environment.
* Evaluates children's physical and psychological makeup to determine needs.
* Refers child and parent or guardian to community resources according to needs of child.
* Evaluates foster home environmental factors and personal characteristics of adoption applicants to determine suitability of foster home and adoption applicants.
* Places and is responsible for children and their well-being in foster or adoptive homes, institutions, and medical treatment centers.
* Counsels children and parents, guardians, foster parents, or institution staff, concerning adjustment to foster home situation, plans for child's care, interactional behavior modifications needed, or rehabilitation.
* Places children in adoptive homes and counsels adoptive parents pending legal adoption.
* Provides service to unmarried parents, including care during pregnancy and planning for child.
* Arranges for day care or homemaker service.
* Employed in establishments such as child placement (foster care or adoption), protective service, or institution.
* Maintains case history records and reports.
* Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work.
* May specialize in specific area of child-directed casework and be designated according to work performed as Caseworker, Child Placement; Caseworker, Protective Services.
* May interview clients for purpose of screening to determine eligibility for agency services and be designated Caseworker, Intake.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cashes checks for customers and monitors checkout stations in self-service store. Responsibilities include:
* Cashes personal and payroll checks.
* Provides information to customers.
* Receives customer's complaints and resolves complaints when possible.
* Monitors checkout stations to reduce customer delay.
* Calls additional workers to stations when situation warrants.
* Issues cash to stations and removes excess cash.
* Audits cash register tapes.
* May compile reports, verify employee time records, and prepare payroll.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aids individuals and families having problems concerning family relationships or other aspects of their social functioning affecting unity of family and welfare of community. Responsibilities include:
* Counsels clients on problems, such as unsatisfactory relationships between marriage partners or between parents and children; unwed parenthood; home management; work adjustment; vocational training; need for financial assistance; care of the ill, handicapped, or aged, care of other family members at time of physical or mental illness; desertion of parent; or difficulties encountered in travel or stabilization in new community.
* Helps clients to use agency's services, such as homemaker, or day care, and other community resources.
* In a public assistance or voluntary agency ascertains client's eligibility for financial assistance and determines amount of grant and assumes responsibility for services rendered.
* May assist travelers, runaways of any age, migrants, transients, refugees, repatriated Americans, and problem families drifting from community to community, encountering difficulty in traveling or needing help toward stabilization.
* Employed in organizations, such as public assistance, family service, Travelers Aid, and American Red Cross Home Service.
* Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles data for use by urban planner in making planning studies. Responsibilities include:
* Summarizes information from maps, reports, field and file investigations, and books.
* Traces maps and prepares statistical tabulations, computations, charts, and graphs to illustrate planning studies in areas, such as population, transportation, traffic, land use, zoning, proposed subdivisions, and public utilities.
* Prepares and updates files and records.
* May answer public inquiries, conduct field interviews and make surveys of traffic flow, parking, housing, educational facilities, recreation, zoning, and other conditions which affect planning studies.
Industry:Professional careers
