"Insurance Underwriter"

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: "Insurance Underwriter"

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

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


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


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


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

6) 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.


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


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


9) 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).

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


11) 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.

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


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

14) Number Facility -- The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.


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


16) Mathematical Reasoning -- The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.

Job Description for "Insurance Underwriter" continued here...

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

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