Financial Investment Advisers

73%

Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.

69%

Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.

67%

Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.

67%

Showing, promoting, and selling including marketing strategy, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

63%

Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.

63%

Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.

61%

Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

60%

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

59%

Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

54%

Human behaviour; differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; research methods; assessing and treating disorders.

54%

How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system.

51%

Recruiting and training people, managing pay and other entitlements (like sick leave), and negotiating pay and conditions.

42%

Diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and career counselling and guidance.

36%

Media production, communication, and dissemination. Includes written, spoken, and visual media.

35%

Philosophical systems and religions, including their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and impact on society.

34%

Raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and ways of making and distributing goods.

33%

Group behaviour and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.

24%

Events of the past, their causes, how we learn about them, and how they influence the way we live today.

21%

Transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

20%

Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions.

66%

Communicate by speaking.

64%

Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.

64%

Add, subtract, multiply, or divide.

61%

Write in a way that people can understand.

59%

Listen to and understand what people say.

59%

Read and understand written information.

59%

See details that are up-close (within a few feet).

57%

Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.

55%

Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.

55%

Identify and understand the speech of another person.

54%

Choose the right maths method or formula to solve a problem.

52%

Speak clearly so others can understand you.

48%

Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.

46%

Come up with different ways of grouping things.

46%

Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

43%

Come up with unusual or clever ideas, or creative ways to solve a problem.

37%

Use your eyes to quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

36%

See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.

36%

Pay attention to something without being distracted.

36%

Quickly make sense of and organize things you can see like letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

95%

Use electronic mail.

95%

Work indoors with access to heating or cooling.

93%

Talk on the telephone.

91%

Spend time sitting at work.

88%

Have contact with people by telephone, face-to-face, or any other way.

86%

Be very exact or highly accurate.

86%

Frequently make decisions that impact other people.

85%

Talk with people face-to-face.

83%

Make decisions that have a large impact on other people.

82%

Compete with others, or be aware of competitive pressures.

80%

Work with customers or the public.

79%

Work to strict deadlines.

78%

Have freedom to decide on tasks, priorities, and goals.

76%

Have freedom to make decision on your own.

76%

Write letters and memos.

74%

Work with people in a group or team.

65%

Repeat the same tasks or activities (e.g., key entry) over and over, without stopping.

65%

Lead others to do work activities.

65%

Take responsibility for the results of other people's work.

63%

Work where mistakes have serious consequences.