Adapted Physical Education Specialists
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
Bachelor's degree
Details
Education Details
38%
Bachelor's Degree
33%
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master.
29%
Master's Degree
Salary
High:
$121,850.00
Average:
$74,310.00
Summary of What they do:
Provide individualized physical education instruction or services to children, youth, or adults with exceptional physical needs due to gross motor developmental delays or other impairments.
Responsibilities
Tasks On The Job
- Adapt instructional techniques to the age and skill levels of students.
- Advise education professionals of students' physical abilities or disabilities and the accommodations required to enhance their school performance.
- Assess students' physical progress or needs.
- Assist in screening or placement of students in adapted physical education programs.
- Attend in-service training, workshops, or meetings to keep abreast of current practices or trends in adapted physical education.
- Collaborate with other educational personnel to provide inclusive activities or programs for children with disabilities.
- Communicate behavioral observations and student progress reports to students, parents, teachers, or administrators.
- Establish and maintain standards of behavior to create safe, orderly, and effective environments for learning.
- Evaluate the motor needs of individual students to determine their need for adapted physical education services.
- Instruct students, using adapted physical education techniques, to improve physical fitness, gross motor skills, perceptual motor skills, or sports and game achievement.
- Maintain inventory of instructional equipment, materials, or aids.
- Maintain thorough student records to document attendance, participation, or progress, ensuring confidentiality of all records.
- Prepare lesson plans in accordance with individualized education plans (IEPs) and the functional abilities or needs of students.
- Provide adapted physical education services to students with intellectual disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, orthopedic impairments, or other disabling condition.
- Provide individual or small groups of students with adapted physical education instruction that meets desired physical needs or goals.
- Provide students positive feedback to encourage them and help them develop an appreciation for physical education.
- Request or order physical education equipment, following standard procedures.
- Review adapted physical education programs or practices to ensure compliance with government or other regulations.
- Write or modify individualized education plans (IEPs) for students with intellectual or physical disabilities.
- Write reports to summarize student performance, social growth, or physical development.
PERSONALITY
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CAREER CHARACTERISTICS
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93% | Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
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92% | Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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89% | Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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89% | Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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89% | Concern for Others  -  Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. | |
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88% | Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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85% | Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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83% | Self-Control  -  Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. | |
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83% | Leadership  -  Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. | |
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82% | Innovation  -  Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. | |
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79% | Independence  -  Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. | |
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78% | Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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78% | Stress Tolerance  -  Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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76% | Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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76% | Social Orientation  -  Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. | |
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72% | Analytical Thinking  -  Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
Your Assessment Results |
IMPORTANT STRENGTHS
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100% | Social  -  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. |
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WORK VALUES
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100% | Relationships  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. | |
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83% | Achievement  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement. | |
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67% | Independence  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. | |
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61% | Support  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
APTITUDES
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ABILITIES | SKILLS
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78% | Oral Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |
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75% | Oral Comprehension  -  The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |
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72% | Written Comprehension  -  The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |
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72% | Written Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |
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72% | Problem Sensitivity  -  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. | |
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72% | Deductive Reasoning  -  The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |
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72% | Near Vision  -  The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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69% | Speech Recognition  -  The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |
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69% | Speech Clarity  -  The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |
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60% | Fluency of Ideas  -  The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |
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60% | Inductive Reasoning  -  The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |
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59% | Active Listening  -  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. | |
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59% | Social Perceptiveness  -  Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |
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57% | Reading Comprehension  -  Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. | |
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57% | Speaking  -  Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |
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57% | Learning Strategies  -  Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |
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56% | Originality  -  The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |
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56% | Information Ordering  -  The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |
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55% | Writing  -  Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |
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55% | Critical Thinking  -  Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. | |
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55% | Active Learning  -  Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |
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55% | Monitoring  -  Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |
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55% | Coordination  -  Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |
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55% | Judgment and Decision Making  -  Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |
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54% | Service Orientation  -  Actively looking for ways to help people. | |
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53% | Flexibility of Closure  -  The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |
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53% | Selective Attention  -  The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |
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53% | Far Vision  -  The ability to see details at a distance. | |
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52% | Persuasion  -  Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |
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52% | Instructing  -  Teaching others how to do something. |
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TASKS | ACTIVITIES
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87% | Performing General Physical Activities  -  Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. | |
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85% | Assisting and Caring for Others  -  Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. | |
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78% | Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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76% | Thinking Creatively  -  Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. | |
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76% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates  -  Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. | |
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76% | Developing Objectives and Strategies  -  Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. | |
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75% | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships  -  Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. | |
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75% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems  -  Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. | |
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75% | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work  -  Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. | |
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73% | Documenting/Recording Information  -  Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
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69% | Coaching and Developing Others  -  Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. | |
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67% | Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates  -  Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. | |
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66% | Training and Teaching Others  -  Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. | |
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66% | Handling and Moving Objects  -  Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. | |
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64% | Developing and Building Teams  -  Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. | |
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64% | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events  -  Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. | |
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63% | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards  -  Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. | |
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63% | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge  -  Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. | |
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63% | Providing Consultation and Advice to Others  -  Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. | |
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60% | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings  -  Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. | |
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60% | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People  -  Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. | |
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57% | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others  -  Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. | |
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57% | Scheduling Work and Activities  -  Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. | |
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56% | Working with Computers  -  Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. | |
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55% | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public  -  Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. | |
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55% | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others  -  Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. | |
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54% | Analyzing Data or Information  -  Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. | |
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51% | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others  -  Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
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CONTEXT | ATTRIBUTES
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95% | Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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94% | Electronic Mail  -  How often do you use electronic mail in this job? | |
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92% | Physical Proximity  -  To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? | |
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89% | Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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88% | Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? | |
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86% | Work With Work Group or Team  -  How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? | |
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86% | Spend Time Standing  -  How much does this job require standing? | |
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85% | Contact With Others  -  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? | |
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73% | Spend Time Walking and Running  -  How much does this job require walking and running? | |
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72% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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70% | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety  -  How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? | |
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69% | Coordinate or Lead Others  -  How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? | |
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64% | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable  -  How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? | |
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62% | Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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62% | Frequency of Decision Making  -  How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? | |
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60% | Time Pressure  -  How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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59% | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results  -  How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? | |
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58% | Deal With External Customers  -  How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? | |
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58% | Public Speaking  -  How often do you have to perform public speaking in this job? | |
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57% | Frequency of Conflict Situations  -  How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? | |
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56% | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People  -  How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? | |
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56% | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? | |
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55% | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results  -  What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? | |
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54% | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather  -  How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? | |
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54% | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body  -  How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? | |
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53% | Deal With Physically Aggressive People  -  How frequently does this job require the worker to deal with physical aggression of violent individuals? | |
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51% | Letters and Memos  -  How often does the job require written letters and memos? | |
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62% | Duration of Typical Work Week  -  Number of hours typically worked in one week. |