Education:
59%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
30%
Some College Courses
Data Entry Keyers
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent
Work From Home
Salary
High:
$51,510.00
Average:
$37,970.00
Hourly
Average:
$18.26
What they do:
Operate data entry device, such as keyboard or photo composing perforator. Duties may include verifying data and preparing materials for printing.
On the job, you would:
- Locate and correct data entry errors, or report them to supervisors.
- Compile, sort, and verify the accuracy of data before it is entered.
- Compare data with source documents, or re-enter data in verification format to detect errors.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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99% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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97% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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95% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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91% | 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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91% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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91% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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90% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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90% | Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. | |
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90% | Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
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89% | 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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89% | 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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88% | Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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87% | Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
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84% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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84% | Innovation - Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. | |
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70% | Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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100% | Conventional - 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. | |
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56% | Realistic - 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. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Values of the Work Environment |
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56% | 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. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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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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72% | Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |
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69% | Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |
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63% | Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |
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63% | 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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63% | Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |
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63% | Perceptual Speed - The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |
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60% | Selective Attention - The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |
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56% | Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |
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53% | Wrist-Finger Speed - The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. | |
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53% | Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |
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53% | Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Enter information into databases or software programs.
Compile data or documentation.
Verify accuracy of financial or transactional data.
Enter information into databases or software programs.
Store records or related materials.
Check data for recording errors.
Provide information to coworkers.
Maintain operational records.
Select resources needed to accomplish tasks.
Operate office equipment.
Translate information for others.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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97% | Spend Time Sitting - How much does this job require sitting? | |
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97% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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95% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks - How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? | |
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90% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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88% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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86% | 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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83% | Electronic Mail - How often do you use electronic mail in this job? | |
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81% | 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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81% | 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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80% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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80% | Telephone - How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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77% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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76% | 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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58% | 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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58% | 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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56% | 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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54% | 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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53% | 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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51% | Consequence of Error - How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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93% | 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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88% | Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. | |
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85% | Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
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82% | 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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81% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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80% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. | |
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78% | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. | |
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77% | 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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73% | Performing Administrative Activities - Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. | |
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71% | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. | |
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65% | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. | |
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64% | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. | |
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64% | 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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61% | 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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59% | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. | |
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57% | Communicating with People Outside the Organization - Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. | |
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57% | 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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54% | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others - Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |