"Optometrist"

Job Description - Part 4 - Abilities Needed

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

Abilities Needed for: "Optometrist"

1) Oral Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

2) 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 there is a problem.


3) 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.


4) Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).


5) Oral Comprehension -- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

6) Inductive Reasoning -- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).


7) Speech Recognition -- The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.


8) Speech Clarity -- The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.


9) 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.

10) 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.


11) Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

12) Written Comprehension -- The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.


13) Control Precision -- The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

14) Written Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.


15) 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.


16) 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).


17) Visual Color Discrimination -- The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Job Description for "Optometrist" continued here...

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

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