"Private Detective and Investigator"

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: "Private Detective and Investigator"

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

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


3) 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.


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


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

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


7) Speed of Closure -- The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.


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


9) Reaction Time -- The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.

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


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

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


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

14) Fluency of Ideas -- The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).


15) Sound Localization -- The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.


16) Gross Body Coordination -- The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.

Job Description for "Private Detective and Investigator" continued here...

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

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