First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers

Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.

Actively looking for ways to help people.

Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.

Using mathematics to solve problems.

Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.

Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.

Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.

Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.

Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.

Writing computer programs for various purposes.

Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

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

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).

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.

The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).

The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

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).

The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

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.

The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.

The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

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.

The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.

The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.

The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.

The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.

The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.

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

The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.

The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.

The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.

The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.

The ability to see under low-light conditions.

The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.

The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.

The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.

The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.

The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.

The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.

The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.

The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.

The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.

Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.

Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.

Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.

Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.

Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.

Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.

Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).

Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.

Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.

Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.

Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.

Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.

Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.

Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.

Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.

Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.

Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.

Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.

A tendency to be open to and comfortable with change, new experiences, or ideas at work.

A tendency to be careful, deliberate, and risk-avoidant when making work-related decisions or doing work.

A tendency to exhibit a positive attitude and positive emotions at work, even under difficult circumstances.

A tendency to be inventive, to be imaginative, and to adopt new perspectives on ways to accomplish work.

A tendency to be genuine and sincere in interactions with others at work, without concern for personal gain or self-interest.

A tendency to show concern for others and be sensitive to others' needs and feelings at work.

A tendency to be comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty at work.

A tendency to be modest and humble when interacting with others at work.

A tendency to seek out and acquire new work-related knowledge and obtain a deep understanding of work-related subjects.