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Tile & Marble Setters
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Apply hard tile, marble, and wood tile to walls, floors, ceilings, and roof decks.
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Abilities
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Extent Flexibility| | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
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Oral Comprehension| | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
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Oral Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
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Visualization| | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Near Vision| | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
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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. |
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Static Strength| | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
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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. |
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Deductive Reasoning| | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
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Dynamic Strength| | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. |
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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). |
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Mathematical Reasoning| | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
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Trunk Strength| | 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. |
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Control Precision| | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
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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. |
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Number Facility| | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
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Speech Clarity| | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
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Speech Recognition| | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
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Written Comprehension| | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
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Selective Attention| | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
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Visual Color Discrimination| | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
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Category Flexibility| | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
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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. |
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Gross Body Coordination| | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. |
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Inductive Reasoning| | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
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Memorization| | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. |
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Written Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
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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). |
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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. |
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Stamina| | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. |
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Dynamic Flexibility| | The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
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Time Sharing| | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
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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. |
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Spatial Orientation| | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. |
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Speed of Closure| | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. |
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Speed of Limb Movement| | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. |
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Wrist-Finger Speed| | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. |
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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. |
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Far Vision| | The ability to see details at a distance. |
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Gross Body Equilibrium| | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. |
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Reaction Time| | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
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Rate Control| | 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. |
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Explosive Strength| | The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. |
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Peripheral Vision| | The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. |
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Auditory Attention| | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
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Hearing Sensitivity| | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
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Interests
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Realistic| | 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. |
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Second Interest High-Point| | Secondary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness |
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Conventional| | 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. |
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Enterprising| | 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. |
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Investigative| | 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. |
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Artistic| | 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. |
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Social| | Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others. |
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First Interest High-Point| | Primary-Rank Descriptiveness |
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Knowledge
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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. |
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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. |
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Production and Processing| | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
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Mathematics| | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
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Design| | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Clerical| | 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. |
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Economics and Accounting| | Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data. |
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Mechanical| | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
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English Language| | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
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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. |
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Transportation| | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. |
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Chemistry| | 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Physics| | 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. |
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Computers and Electronics| | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
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Law and Government| | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
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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. |
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Telecommunications| | Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. |
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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. |
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Sociology and Anthropology| | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. |
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Psychology| | 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. |
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Biology| | Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. |
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History and Archeology| | Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures. |
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Geography| | 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Fine Arts| | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. |
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Wages
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| North Carolina | $29,610.00 |
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| South Carolina | $25,380.00 |
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Related Careers
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Brickmasons & Blockmasons| | Lay and bind building materials, such as brick, structural tile, concrete block, cinder block, glass block, and terra-cotta block, with mortar and other substances to construct or repair walls, partitions, arches, sewers, and other structures. |
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Construction Carpenters| | Construct, erect, install, and repair structures and fixtures of wood, plywood, and wallboard, using carpenter's hand tools and power tools. |
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Drywall & Ceiling Tile Installers| | Apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. Apply or mount acoustical tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. Materials may be of decorative quality. Includes lathers who fasten wooden, metal, or rockboard lath to walls, ceilings or partitions of buildings to provide support base for plaster, fire-proofing, or acoustical material. |
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Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, & Tile & Marble Setters| | Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties of lesser skill. Duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment. |
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Reinforcing Iron & Rebar Workers| | Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. |
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Tapers| | Seal joints between plasterboard or other wallboard to prepare wall surface for painting or papering. |
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Skills
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Critical Thinking| | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
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Mathematics| | Using mathematics to solve problems. |
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Coordination| | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
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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. |
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Social Perceptiveness| | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
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Instructing| | Teaching others how to do something. |
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Complex Problem Solving| | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
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Equipment Selection| | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
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Installation| | Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications. |
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Active Learning| | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
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Monitoring| | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
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Time Management| | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
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Reading Comprehension| | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
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Writing| | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
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Judgment and Decision Making| | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
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Learning Strategies| | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
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Management of Financial Resources| | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
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Speaking| | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
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Negotiation| | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
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Service Orientation| | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
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Operations Analysis| | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
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Equipment Maintenance| | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
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Management of Material Resources| | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. |
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Technology Design| | Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs. |
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Management of Personnel Resources| | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
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Quality Control Analysis| | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
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Persuasion| | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
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Troubleshooting| | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
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Repairing| | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
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Operation and Control| | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
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Systems Analysis| | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
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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. |
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Operation Monitoring| | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
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Science| | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. |
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Programming| | Writing computer programs for various purposes. |
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Tasks
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| Align and straighten tile using levels, squares and straightedges. |
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| Determine and implement the best layout to achieve a desired pattern. |
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| Cut and shape tile to fit around obstacles and into odd spaces and corners, using hand and power cutting tools. |
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| Finish and dress the joints and wipe excess grout from between tiles, using damp sponge. |
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| Apply mortar to tile back, position the tile and press or tap with trowel handle to affix tile to base. |
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| Mix, apply, and spread plaster, concrete, mortar, cement, mastic, glue or other adhesives to form a bed for the tiles, using brush, trowel and screed. |
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| Prepare cost and labor estimates based on calculations of time and materials needed for project. |
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| Measure and mark surfaces to be tiled, following blueprints. |
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| Level concrete and allow to dry. |
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| Build underbeds and install anchor bolts, wires and brackets. |
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| Select and order tile and other items to be installed, such as bathroom accessories, walls, panels, and cabinets, according to specifications. |
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| Prepare surfaces for tiling by attaching lath or waterproof paper, or by applying a cement mortar coat onto a metal screen. |
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| Mix and apply mortar or cement to edges and ends of drain tiles to seal halves and joints. |
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| Study blueprints and examine surface to be covered to determine amount of material needed. |
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| Cut, surface, polish and install marble and granite or install pre-cast terrazzo, granite or marble units. |
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| Install and anchor fixtures in designated positions, using hand tools. |
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| Cut tile backing to required size, using shears. |
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| Remove any old tile, grout and adhesive using chisels and scrapers and clean the surface carefully. |
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| Lay and set mosaic tiles to create decorative wall, mural and floor designs. |
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| Assist customers in selection of tile and grout. |
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| Remove and replace cracked or damaged tile. |
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| Measure and cut metal lath to size for walls and ceilings, using tin snips. |
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| Spread mastic or other adhesive base on roof deck to form base for promenade tile, using serrated spreader. |
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| Apply a sealer to make grout stain- and water-resistant. |
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| Brush glue onto manila paper on which design has been drawn and position tiles finished side down onto paper. |
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Tools
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| Abrasive stones |
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| Grinding stones |
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| Adjustable widemouth pliers |
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| Widemouth Pliers |
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| Air compressors |
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| Air exhausters |
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| Exhaust fans |
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| Articulating boom lift |
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| Articulating boom lifts |
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| Bench vises |
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| Blow torches |
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| Caulking guns |
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| Chalk lines |
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| Cold chisels |
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| Concrete spreaders |
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| Screeds |
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| Serrated spreaders |
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| Dust collectors |
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| Ear muffs |
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| Ear plugs |
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| End cut pliers |
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| Tile nippers |
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| Eyewashers or eye wash stations |
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| Eyewash facilities |
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| Facial shields |
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| Face shields |
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| Files |
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| Double-sided files |
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| Floats |
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| Bull floats |
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| Grout floats |
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| Magnesium floats |
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| Wood floats |
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| Floor polishers |
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| Floor scrapers |
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| Floor scrubbers |
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| Gas generators |
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| Glue guns |
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| Hot glue guns |
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| Goggles |
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| Hammers |
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| Claw hammers |
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| Rubber hammers |
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| Hard hats |
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| Ladders |
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| Level sensors or transmitters |
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| Transit levels |
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| Levels |
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| Builders' levels |
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| Laser levels |
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| Water levels |
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| Lifelines or lifeline equipment |
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| Lifelines |
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| Mallets |
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| Masks or accessories |
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| Dust masks |
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| Nibblers |
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| Tile cutters |
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| Plaster or mortar mixers |
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| Colloidal mixers |
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| Drum cement mixers |
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| Horizontal shaft mixers |
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| Mixing drills |
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| Pan mixers |
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| Portable mixers |
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| Vertical shaft mixers |
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| Plumb bobs |
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| Pneumatic hammers |
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| Jackhammers |
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| Power buffers |
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| Polishers |
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| Stone polishers |
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| Power chippers |
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| Chipping hammers |
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| Power chisels |
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| Power drills |
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| Hammer drills |
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| Power grinders |
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| Angle grinders |
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| Base grinders |
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| Floor grinding machines |
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| Mini grinders |
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| Stone grinders |
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| Power routers |
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| Power saws |
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| Grout saws |
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| Power tile saws |
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| Power undercut saws |
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| Wet saws |
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| Power screwguns |
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| Stand-up screw guns |
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| Protective gloves |
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| Safety gloves |
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| Pry bars |
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| Molding prybars |
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| Wonder bars |
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| Putty knives |
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| Razor knives |
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| Grout scrapers |
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| Respirators |
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| Safety glasses |
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| Safety harnesses or belts |
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| Fall arrest systems |
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| Saws |
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| Hacksaws |
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| Scaffolding |
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| Ladder jacks |
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| Mechanical scaffolds |
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| Rolling scaffolds |
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| Stationary scaffolds |
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| Scarifiers |
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| Power scarifiers |
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| Scissor lift |
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| Scissor lifts |
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| Screwdrivers |
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| Socket sets |
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| Socket wrench sets |
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| Spatulas |
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| Spreader spatulas |
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| Squares |
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| Laser squares |
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| Staple guns |
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| Straight edges |
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| Straightedges |
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| Suction cups |
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| Tape measures |
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| Layout sticks |
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| Story pole tape measures |
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| Tinners snips |
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| Tin snips |
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| Trowels |
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| Buttering trowels |
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| Finishing trowels |
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| Flat trowels |
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| Gauging trowels |
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| Grouting trowels |
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| Heavy gauge trowels |
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| Margin trowels |
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| Notch trowels |
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| Point trowels |
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| Utility knives |
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| Vacuum cleaners |
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| Wet-dry vacs |
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| Winches |
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| Electric winches |
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Career Activities
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| Handling and Moving Objects |
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| apply grouting or other masonry adhesives |
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| fabricate, assemble, or disassemble manufactured products by hand |
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| mix paint, ingredients, or chemicals, according to specifications |
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| Performing General Physical Activities |
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| apply adhesives, caulking, sealants, or coatings |
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| apply plaster, stucco or related material |
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| build or repair structures in construction, repair, or manufacturing setting |
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| climb ladders, scaffolding, or utility or telephone poles |
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| cut or shape stone, tile, brick, or related material |
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| erect scaffold |
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| install lathing to support plaster, stucco, or related construction material |
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| install prefabricated building components |
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| lay or install brick, block, stone, tile, or related masonry material |
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| mix mortar, grout, slurry, concrete, or related masonry material |
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| move or fit heavy objects |
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| prepare site or surfaces for concrete or masonry work |
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| repair cracks, defects, or damage in installed building materials |
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| repair or replace damaged bricks, tile, or related masonry |
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| Controlling Machines and Processes |
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| use hand or power tools |
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| use measuring devices in construction or extraction work |
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| Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events |
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| understand construction specifications |
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