
Cooks, Institution & Cafeteria

Skills
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Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
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Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
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Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
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Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
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Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
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Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
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Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
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Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Knowledge
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English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
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Food Production — Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
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Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
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Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
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Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
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Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
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Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Ability
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Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
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Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
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Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
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Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
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Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
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Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
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Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
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Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
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Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
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Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
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Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
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Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
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Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
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Time Sharing — The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
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Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
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Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
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Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Education
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High school diploma or equivalent
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Post-secondary certificate
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Bachelor's degree