Upholsterers

46%

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

41%

Design techniques, tools, and principles used to make detailed technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

40%

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

38%

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

36%

Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.

32%

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

31%

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

30%

Materials, and methods used to construct or repair houses, buildings, or other structures like highways and roads.

27%

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

26%

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

23%

Use engineering, science and technology to design and produce goods and services.

20%

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

19%

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

17%

Chemical composition, structure, and properties. How chemicals are made, used, mixed, and can change.

17%

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

15%

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

15%

Moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road.

12%

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

10%

Foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

9%

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

59%

Keep your hand or arm steady.

57%

Put together small parts with your fingers.

57%

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

55%

Notice differences between colours, including shades of colour and brightness.

55%

Quickly move your hand to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

55%

Imagine how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

54%

Use your arms and/or legs at the same time while sitting, standing, or lying down.

52%

Quickly change the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

45%

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

45%

Use your abdominal and lower back muscles a number of times without 'giving out' or fatiguing.

43%

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

43%

Read and understand written information.

43%

Come up with different ways of grouping things.

43%

Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.

43%

Bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

43%

Listen to and understand what people say.

43%

Communicate by speaking.

43%

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

41%

Decide which thing is closer or further away from you, or decide how far away it is.

41%

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

98%

Spend time using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls.

93%

Spend time standing at work.

87%

Be very exact or highly accurate.

83%

Spend time making repetitive motions.

79%

Wear equipment like safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets.

77%

Work to strict deadlines.

76%

Spend time bending or twisting your body.

76%

Talk with people face-to-face.

74%

Compete with others, or be aware of competitive pressures.

73%

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

73%

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

72%

Work indoors with access to heating or cooling.

71%

Be exposed to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings.

69%

Make decisions that have a large impact on other people.

69%

Work physically close to other people.

69%

Spend time walking and running.

65%

Be exposed to noises and sounds that are distracting or uncomfortable.

64%

Have freedom to make decision on your own.

64%

Frequently make decisions that impact other people.

63%

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