"Reporters and Correspondent"

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: "Reporters and Correspondent"

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

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


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


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


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

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


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


8) 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.


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

10) 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.


11) 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).

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


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

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).

Job Description for "Reporters and Correspondent" continued here...

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

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