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Bailiffs

Maintain order in courts of law.

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Knowledge
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Personal Styles
Personal Needs
Personal Values

Degrees

Criminal Justice + Police Science

Abilities

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.

Static Strength

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

Selective Attention

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

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

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Oral Comprehension

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Oral Expression

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

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Gross Body Coordination

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

Response Orientation

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.

Inductive Reasoning

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

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).

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

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.

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Explosive Strength

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 see details at a distance.

Speed of Closure

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

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.

Written Expression

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

Auditory Attention

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

Speed of Limb Movement

The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.

Gross Body Equilibrium

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

Multilimb Coordination

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.

Category Flexibility

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

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.

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

Dynamic Strength

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

Hearing Sensitivity

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

Extent Flexibility

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Peripheral Vision

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

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.

Spatial Orientation

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

Visual Color Discrimination

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

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.

Mathematical Reasoning

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

Number Facility

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

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

Interests

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Third Interest High-Point

Tertiary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Second Interest High-Point

Secondary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

First Interest High-Point

Primary-Rank Descriptiveness

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Knowledge

Customer and Personal Service

Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Public Safety and Security

Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Law and Government

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

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.

Education and Training

Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

English Language

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Administration and Management

Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.

Philosophy and Theology

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.

Sociology and Anthropology

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

Communications and Media

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

Telecommunications

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

Computers and Electronics

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

Medicine and Dentistry

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.

Foreign Language

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 of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Personnel and Human Resources

Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

Therapy and Counseling

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

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

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 machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Building and Construction

Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

Economics and Accounting

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

Production and Processing

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

History and Archeology

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

Engineering and Technology

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 design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

Sales and Marketing

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 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.

Food Production

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

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

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

Wages

Ohio	$33,430.00

Utah	$31,930.00

Related Careers

Correctional Officers & Jailers

Guard inmates in penal or rehabilitative institution in accordance with established regulations and procedures. May guard prisoners in transit between jail, courtroom, prison, or other point. Includes deputy sheriffs and police who spend the majority of their time guarding prisoners in correctional institutions.

Criminal Investigators & Special Agents

Investigate alleged or suspected criminal violations of Federal, state, or local laws to determine if evidence is sufficient to recommend prosecution.

Crossing Guards

Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as streets, schools, railroad crossings, or construction sites.

Immigration & Customs Inspectors

Investigate and inspect persons, common carriers, goods, and merchandise, arriving in or departing from the United States or between states to detect violations of immigration and customs laws and regulations.

Private Detectives & Investigators

Detect occurrences of unlawful acts or infractions of rules in private establishment, or seek, examine, and compile information for client.

Security Guards

Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules.

Sheriffs & Deputy Sheriffs

Enforce law and order in rural or unincorporated districts or serve legal processes of courts. May patrol courthouse, guard court or grand jury, or escort defendants.

Transit & Railroad Police

Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.

Skills

Active Listening

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Social Perceptiveness

Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Learning Strategies

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.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Active Learning

Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Service Orientation

Actively looking for ways to help people.

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Equipment Selection

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

Time Management

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.

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

Teaching others how to do something.

Judgment and Decision Making

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Complex Problem Solving

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Management of Personnel Resources

Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Operations Analysis

Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Technology Design

Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.

Using mathematics to solve problems.

Systems Evaluation

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

Operation Monitoring

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

Operation and Control

Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

Quality Control Analysis

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

Troubleshooting

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

Management of Material Resources

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

Systems Analysis

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

Equipment Maintenance

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

Writing computer programs for various purposes.

Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.

Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

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

Management of Financial Resources

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

Tasks

Collect and retain unauthorized firearms from persons entering courtroom.

Maintain order in courtroom during trial and guard jury from outside contact.

Guard lodging of sequestered jury.

Provide jury escort to restaurant and other areas outside of courtroom to prevent jury contact with public.

Enforce courtroom rules of behavior and warn persons not to smoke or disturb court procedure.

Report need for police or medical assistance to sheriff's office.

Check courtroom for security and cleanliness and assure availability of sundry supplies for use of judge.

Announce entrance of judge.

Stop people from entering courtroom while judge charges jury.

Career Activities

Performing for or Working Directly with the Public

enforce laws, ordinances, or regulations

escort prisoners, defendants or individuals needing protection

Communicating with Persons Outside Organization

communicate details in protective services settings

Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings

monitor entrance or exit of persons

monitor order or court procedure in courtroom

patrol or guard area or premises

Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

recognize public safety hazards

Making Decisions and Solving Problems

authorize entry or exit of individuals

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge

follow law enforcement methods or procedures

use arrest, search, or seizure legal statutes

use oral or written communication techniques

Performing General Physical Activities

apply appropriate physical restraint

Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards

oversee work progress to verify safety or conformance to standards

Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material

evaluate premises for cleanliness

Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others

explain rules, policies or regulations

Controlling Machines and Processes

Career Context

Indoors, Environmentally Controlled

Face-to-Face Discussions

Contact With Others

Exposed to Contaminants

Physical Proximity

Consequence of Error

Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People

Public Speaking

Deal With External Customers

Structured versus Unstructured Work

Exposed to Disease or Infections

Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets

Responsible for Others' Health and Safety

Freedom to Make Decisions

Frequency of Decision Making

Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls

Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results

Work With Work Group or Team

Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

Coordinate or Lead Others

Letters and Memos

Electronic Mail

Degree of Automation

Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment

Responsibility for Outcomes and Results

Spend Time Walking and Running

Spend Time Sitting

Importance of Repeating Same Tasks

Exposed to Radiation

Deal With Physically Aggressive People

Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions

In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment

Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled

Outdoors, Exposed to Weather

Frequency of Conflict Situations

Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions

Exposed to Hazardous Equipment

Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body

Spend Time Standing

Career Styles

Job requires being honest and ethical.

Stress Tolerance

Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.

Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

Attention to Detail

Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.

Adaptability/Flexibility

Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

Concern for Others

Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.

Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.

Social Orientation

Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.

Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.

Achievement/Effort

Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.

Analytical Thinking

Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.

Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

Career Needs

Workers on this job have steady employment.

Supervision, Human Relations

Workers on this job have supervisors who back up their workers with management.

Company Policies and Practices

Workers on this job are treated fairly by the company.

Workers on this job are never pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.

Workers on this job have co-workers who are easy to get along with.

Working Conditions

Workers on this job have good working conditions.

Workers on this job are busy all the time.

Workers on this job give directions and instructions to others.

Supervision, Technical

Workers on this job have supervisors who train their workers well.

Workers on this job make decisions on their own.

Workers on this job are looked up to by others in their company and their community.

Workers on this job get a feeling of accomplishment.

Workers on this job are paid well in comparison with other workers.

Workers on this job do their work alone.

Ability Utilization

Workers on this job make use of their individual abilities.

Workers on this job receive recognition for the work they do.

Workers on this job have something different to do every day.

Workers on this job have opportunities for advancement.

Workers on this job have work where they do things for other people.

Workers on this job plan their work with little supervision.

Workers on this job try out their own ideas.

Career Values

Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.

Working Conditions

Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.

Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.

Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.

Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.

Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employs to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.

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