Training & Development Specialists

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Training & Development Specialists

Conduct training and development programs for employees.

Activities
Degrees
Abilities
Interests
Knowledge
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Tasks
Environment
Personal Styles
Personal Needs
Personal Values

Degrees

Human Resources Management + Personnel Administration, General

Organizational Behavior Studies

Abilities

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Oral Expression

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

Written Comprehension

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

Oral Comprehension

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

Written Expression

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

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).

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.

Deductive Reasoning

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

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).

Speech Recognition

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

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.

Category Flexibility

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

Inductive Reasoning

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

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

The ability to see details at a distance.

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

Selective Attention

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

Speed of Closure

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

Auditory Attention

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

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.

Mathematical Reasoning

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

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.

Number Facility

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

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

Extent Flexibility

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

Control Precision

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

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.

Gross Body Coordination

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

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.

Visual Color Discrimination

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

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.

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.

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

Hearing Sensitivity

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

Speed of Limb Movement

The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.

Wrist-Finger Speed

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

The ability to see under low light conditions.

Glare Sensitivity

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

Sound Localization

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Computers and Electronics

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Law and Government

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

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.

Economics and Accounting

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

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.

Telecommunications

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Production and Processing

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

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

History and Archeology

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

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.

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

Food Production

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

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.

Wages

District of Columbia

Guam	$27,520.00

Iowa	$39,850.00

Ohio	$45,550.00

Utah	$38,260.00

Related Careers

First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Office & Administrative Support Workers

Supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers.

Instructional Coordinators

Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology in specialized fields that provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses.

Management Analysts

Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplifications and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Includes program analysts and management consultants.

Management Analysts

Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplifications and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Includes program analysts and management consultants.

Recreation Workers

Conduct recreation activities with groups in public, private, or volunteer agencies or recreation facilities. Organize and promote activities, such as arts and crafts, sports, games, music, dramatics, social recreation, camping, and hobbies, taking into account the needs and interests of individual members.

Training & Development Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate the training and development activities and staff of an organization.

Skills

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

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Active Learning

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

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

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.

Critical Thinking

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

Teaching others how to do something.

Learning Strategies

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

Social Perceptiveness

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

Service Orientation

Actively looking for ways to help people.

Time Management

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

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

Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Using mathematics to solve problems.

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.

Quality Control Analysis

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

Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.

Management of Personnel Resources

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

Equipment Selection

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

Operations Analysis

Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Management of Material Resources

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

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.

Troubleshooting

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

Equipment Maintenance

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

Systems Analysis

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

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

Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.

Management of Financial Resources

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

Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Technology Design

Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.

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.

Writing computer programs for various purposes.

Tasks

Screen, hire, and assign workers to positions based on qualifications.

Keep up with developments in area of expertise by reading current journals, books and magazine articles.

Select and assign instructors to conduct training.

Present information, using a variety of instructional techniques and formats such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos and lectures.

Devise programs to develop executive potential among employees in lower-level positions.

Design, plan, organize and direct orientation and training for employees or customers of industrial or commercial establishment.

Schedule classes based on availability of classrooms, equipment, and instructors.

Negotiate contracts with clients, including desired training outcomes, fees and expenses.

Organize and develop, or obtain, training procedure manuals and guides and course materials such as handouts and visual materials.

Offer specific training programs to help workers maintain or improve job skills.

Supervise instructors, evaluate instructor performance, and refer instructors to classes for skill development.

Monitor training costs to ensure budget is not exceeded, and prepare budget reports to justify expenditures.

Monitor, evaluate and record training activities and program effectiveness.

Attend meetings and seminars to obtain information for use in training programs, or to inform management of training program status.

Coordinate recruitment and placement of training program participants.

Develop alternative training methods if expected improvements are not seen.

Evaluate training materials prepared by instructors, such as outlines, text, and handouts.

Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with employees, focus groups, or consultation with managers, instructors or customer representatives.

Refer trainees to employer relations representatives, to locations offering job placement assistance, or to appropriate social services agencies if warranted.

Career Activities

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge

use interpersonal communication techniques

use interviewing procedures

use knowledge of multi-media technology

use oral or written communication techniques

use public speaking techniques

use teaching techniques

Training and Teaching Others

conduct training for personnel

convert information into instructional program

develop course or training objectives

develop instructional materials

develop training programs

identify training needs

organize educational material or ideas

organize training procedure manuals

participate in staff training programs

train instructors in training techniques

write employee orientation or training materials

Thinking Creatively

design classroom presentations

Provide Consultation and Advice to Others

refer clients to community services or resources

Scheduling Work and Activities

schedule activities, classes, or events

schedule or contract meeting facilities

schedule training

Performing for or Working Directly with the Public

provide customer service

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others

direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff

Communicating with Persons Outside Organization

confer with managers, instructors, or customer representatives

make presentations

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People

evaluate training materials

Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates

assign work to staff or employees

evaluate performance of employees or contract personnel

orient new employees

Performing Administrative Activities

edit written material

maintain records, reports, or files

prepare periodic reports comparing budgeted costs to actual costs

Monitoring and Controlling Resources

monitor operational budget

monitor training costs

Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others

negotiate business contracts

Staffing Organizational Units

assess staff or applicant skill levels

evaluate information from employment interviews

hire, discharge, transfer, or promote workers

interview job applicants

Career Context

Electronic Mail

Indoors, Environmentally Controlled

Face-to-Face Discussions

Deal With External Customers

Freedom to Make Decisions

Coordinate or Lead Others

Structured versus Unstructured Work

Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

Frequency of Decision Making

Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable

Public Speaking

Work With Work Group or Team

In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment

Letters and Memos

Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results

Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions

Contact With Others

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

Physical Proximity

Responsibility for Outcomes and Results

Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People

Consequence of Error

Exposed to Disease or Infections

Exposed to Radiation

Spend Time Standing

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

Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection

Exposed to Contaminants

Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions

Spend Time Sitting

Importance of Repeating Same Tasks

Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body

Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled

Level of Competition

Deal With Physically Aggressive People

Frequency of Conflict Situations

Very Hot or Cold Temperatures

Career Styles

Job requires being honest and ethical.

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

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

Concern for Others

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

Stress Tolerance

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

Social Orientation

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

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

Adaptability/Flexibility

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

Attention to Detail

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

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

Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

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

Career Needs

Working Conditions

Workers on this job have good working conditions.

Workers on this job give directions and instructions to others.

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

Workers on this job get a feeling of accomplishment.

Company Policies and Practices

Workers on this job are treated fairly by the company.

Workers on this job make decisions on their own.

Workers on this job plan their work with little supervision.

Workers on this job try out their own ideas.

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

Workers on this job are busy all the time.

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

Ability Utilization

Workers on this job make use of their individual abilities.

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

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

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

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

Workers on this job have steady employment.

Supervision, Human Relations

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

Workers on this job have opportunities for advancement.

Supervision, Technical

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

Workers on this job do their work alone.