"Camera Operator, Television, Video, and Motion Picture"

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: "Camera Operator, Television, Video, and Motion Picture"

1) 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.

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


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) Far Vision -- The ability to see details at a distance.

6) Visualization -- The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.


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


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


9) 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.

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


11) 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.

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


13) 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.

14) Selective Attention -- The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.


15) 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.


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


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


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


19) 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).


20) Static Strength -- The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.


21) Category Flexibility -- The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.


22) 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.


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


24) Depth Perception -- The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.

Job Description for "Camera Operator, Television, Video, and Motion Picture" continued here...

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

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