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Part of Advise others on business or operational matters, under the O*NET work activity group Providing Consultation and Advice to Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (2 AI-ready, 37 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Provide technical or administrative support for sustainability programs or issues.
- Recommend energy-efficient technologies or alternate energy sources.
- Provide advice on best practices and implementation for selection.
- Advise planning officials on project feasibility, cost-effectiveness, regulatory conformance, or possible alternatives.
- Advise management concerning personnel, managerial, and marketing policies and practices and their potential effects on organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
- Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.
- Present investment information, such as product risks, fees, or fund performance statistics.
- Identify quality problems and recommend solutions.
- Provide advice and consultation on economic relationships to businesses, public and private agencies, and other employers.
- Recommend actions in fraud cases.
- Inform customers of contracts or other information pertaining to purchased services.
- Recommend approval, denial, or conditional approval of proposals.
- Advise management on short-term and long-term financial objectives, policies, and actions.
- Prepare management recommendations, such as proposed fee and tariff increases or schedule changes.
- Recommend improvements in security systems or procedures.
- Advise internal management or business partners on the implementation or operation of compliance programs.
- Make recommendations to control or eliminate unsafe conditions at workplaces or public facilities.
- Recommend personnel actions related to programs and services.
- Recommend new systems and processes to improve operations.
- Recommend ways to control or reduce risk.
- Advise clients on aspects of capitalization, such as amounts, sources, or timing.
- Provide system design and integration recommendations.
- Advise businesses or agencies on ways to improve fraud detection.
- Provide consulting services in fields such as resource development and management, business location and market area analysis, environmental hazards, regional cultural history, and urban social planning.
- Suggest best methods of packaging or labeling products.
- Advise retail establishments on development of loss-investigation procedures.
- Provide direction and assistance to other organizational units regarding accounting and budgeting policies and procedures and efficient control and utilization of financial resources.
- Advise dealers and distributors on policies and operating procedures to ensure functional effectiveness of business.
- Recommend purchase of storage equipment and design area layout to locate equipment in space available.
- Advise business or other groups on local, national, or international factors affecting the buying or selling of products or services.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Advise producers about improved products and techniques that could enhance their animal production efforts.
- Recommend mark-up rates, mark-down rates, or merchandise selling prices.
- Review and evaluate new and current programs to determine their efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with state, local, and federal regulations and recommend any necessary modifications.
- Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
- Evaluate recruitment or selection criteria to ensure conformance to professional, statistical, or testing standards, recommending revisions, as needed.
- Research and perform calculations related to landscape allowances, discharge volumes, production-based and alternative limits, and wastewater strength classifications, making recommendations and completing documentation.
- Participate in the development of spill prevention programs and hazardous waste rules and regulations, and recommend corrective actions for hazardous waste problems.
- Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
- Determine depreciation rates to apply to capitalized items and advise management on actions regarding the purchase, lease, or disposal of such items.