Animal Scientists
Conduct research in the genetics, nutrition, reproduction, growth, and development of domestic farm animals.
Also called: Animal Nutrition Consultant, Animal Nutritionist, Research and Development Director (R&D Director), Research Nutritionist
Knowledge:
- biology
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- food production
- manufacture and distribution of products
- teaching and course design
Skills:
- using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Thinking
- Dependability
- Initiative
- Achievement/Effort
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequence analysis software
- SAS
Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Structured query language SQL
