Education:
61%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
29%
Less than a High School Diploma
Slaughterers & Meat Packers
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
None
Salary
High:
$43,700.00
Average:
$34,920.00
Hourly
Average:
$16.79
What they do:
Perform nonroutine or precision functions involving the preparation of large portions of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats. Work typically occurs in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments.
On the job, you would:
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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86% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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81% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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80% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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77% | Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
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77% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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75% | 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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73% | Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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73% | 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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68% | Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. | |
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68% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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68% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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65% | Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. | |
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65% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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57% | Innovation - Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. | |
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55% | Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
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54% | Social Orientation - Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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100% | 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. | |
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67% | 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. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Values of the Work Environment |
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56% | 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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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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69% | Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |
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60% | 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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56% | Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |
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56% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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53% | Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |
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53% | Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |
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53% | Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Cut meat products.
Clean materials to prepare them for production.
Cut meat products.
Process animal carcasses.
Slaughter animals.
Cut meat products.
Process animal carcasses.
Cut meat products.
Process animal carcasses.
Slaughter animals.
Clean materials to prepare them for production.
Process animal carcasses.
Process animal carcasses.
Slaughter animals.
Process animal carcasses.
Cut meat products.
Process animal carcasses.
Process animal carcasses.
Prepare meat products for sale or consumption.
Slaughter animals.
Prepare meat products for sale or consumption.
Process animal carcasses.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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96% | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets - How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? | |
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92% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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89% | 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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84% | Spend Time Standing - How much does this job require standing? | |
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82% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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80% | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment - How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) | |
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79% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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78% | 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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73% | 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% | 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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73% | 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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70% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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66% | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings - How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? | |
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64% | Coordinate or Lead Others - How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? | |
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63% | Consequence of Error - How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? | |
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61% | 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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60% | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results - How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? | |
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57% | Deal With External Customers - How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? | |
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54% | Very Hot or Cold Temperatures - How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? | |
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53% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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52% | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body - How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? | |
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52% | 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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51% | Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection - How much does this job require wearing specialized protective or safety equipment such as breathing apparatus, safety harness, full protection suits, or radiation protection? | |
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71% | Duration of Typical Work Week - Number of hours typically worked in one week. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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68% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. | |
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64% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. | |
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64% | 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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63% | 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% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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57% | 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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55% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |