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O*NET detailed work activitySupervise scientific or technical personnel
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Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.
Part of Supervise personnel activities, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 20 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Manage laboratory teams or monitor the quality of a team's work.
- Supervise or direct the work of other geneticists, biologists, technicians, or biometricians working on genetics research projects.
- Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists.
- Coordinate and supervise the work of professional and technical staff, including research assistants, technologists, and technicians.
- Direct and review the work of staff members, including survey support staff and interviewers who gather survey data.
- Supervise and provide technical guidance, training, or assistance to employees working in the field to restore habitats.
- Supervise biological technicians and technologists and other scientists.
- Supervise or coordinate the work of urban planning technicians or technologists.
- Supervise technical personnel and postdoctoral research fellows.
- Supervise professional, technical, and clerical personnel.
- Direct work of statistical clerks, statisticians, and others who compile and evaluate research data.
- Direct, coordinate, or advise personnel in test procedures for analyzing components or physical properties of materials.
- Direct the work of technicians and information technology staff applying bioinformatics tools or applications in areas such as proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, or clinical bioinformatics.
- Train and lead forest and conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, putting out forest fires, and maintaining recreational facilities.
- Plan and direct activities of workers who operate equipment to collect data.
- Supervise or train agricultural technicians or farm laborers.
- Supervise or train students, environmental technologists, technicians, or other related staff.
- Direct activities of workers in laboratory.
- Supervise the work of survey interviewers.
- Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.