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Does your job require people skills?

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The February schedule for BLS releases includes something called "Occupational Requirements in the United States," and I've been waiting to find out just what this is. Today the 2023 edition was released and it turns out to be about.......occupational requirements.

But not just education or experience. Are you OK with heights? Is the job outdoors? Sitting or standing? And does it require people skills?

Apparently 61% of all jobs in the US require people skills beyond "OK, boss." It is remarkable the number of things the US keeps statistical track of.

8 thoughts on “Does your job require people skills?”

  1. D_Ohrk_E1

    While in a chat w/ a customer service agent, I sent a series of photos of an installation. He confirmed my speculation but then he looked at the photo and noticed something I hadn't. He ended up saving me a couple of steps which didn't save me much time but it did make for a straightforward and clean installation.

    He obviously had skills far beyond basic people skills. Haven't had that kind of experience w/ customer service in a long time.

  6. SC-Dem

    So what is an "electrical installer"? Is it an electrician or someone who installs a dishwasher or a central air system. Is it a fellow in a bucket truck hooking up the transformer bolted to a pole? Is it someone building a tig welder?

    If "Admin" includes corporate CEOs and VPs, I've come across quite a few with no people skills. Maybe they had them but only used them on people they needed to suck up to.

    Do "furniture" people build it, sell it, or sit on it? Maybe they are people who pretend to be furniture like the girl at the party in the Big Lebowski.

    I've spent my whole adult life working for manufacturing companies. I never heard of a job entitled "machine feeder". Maybe that comes from some vanished industry like textiles.

    I'll stop now.

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