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Employment Interviewers, Private or Public Employment Service

Description
Interview job applicants in employment office and refer them to prospective employers for consideration. Search application files, notify selected applicants of job openings, and refer qualified applicants to prospective employers. Contact employers to verify referral results. Record and evaluate various pertinent data.
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Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.

Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.

Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.

Tasks
  • Interviews job applicants to select people meeting employer qualifications.
  • Refers selected applicants to person placing job order, according to policy of organization.
  • Records additional knowledge, skills, abilities, interests, test results, and other data pertinent to selection and referral of applicants.
  • Informs applicants of job duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, work schedules, working conditions, promotional opportunities, and other related information.
  • Searches for and recruits applicants for open positions.
  • Performs reference and background checks on applicants.
  • Conducts or arranges for skills, intelligence, or psychological testing of applicants.
  • Refers applicants to vocational counseling services.
  • Contacts employers to solicit orders for job vacancies and records information on forms to describe duties, hiring requirements, and related data.
  • Evaluates selection and testing techniques by conducting research or follow-up activities and conferring with management and supervisory personnel.
  • Keeps records of applicants not selected for employment.
  • Reviews job orders and matches applicants with job requirements, utilizing manual or computerized file search.
  • Reviews employment applications and evaluates work history, education and training, job skills, compensation needs, and other qualifications of applicants.
National Average Salary
$44,320.00/year

Average Salary in Maryland
$42,100.00/year

Important Abilities
   1. Oral Comprehension
   2. Oral Expression
   3. Written Comprehension
   4. Speech Clarity
   5. Written Expression

General Work Activities
   1. Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
   2. Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
   3. Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
   4. Establishing & Maintaining Relationships
   5. Performing for/Working With Public

Important Skills
   1. Speaking
   2. Reading Comprehension
   3. Active Listening
   4. Information Gathering
   5. Judgment and Decision Making

Frequent Work Context
   1. Job-Required Social Interaction
   2. Objective or Subjective Information
   3. Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
   4. Deal With External Customers
   5. Indoors

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