Farm & Home Management Advisors
Advise, instruct, and assist individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home economics activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to solve problems; and instruct and train in product development, sales, and the use of machinery and equipment to promote general welfare. Includes county agricultural agents, feed and farm management advisors, home economists, and extension service advisors.
Also called: 4-H Youth Development Specialist, Agricultural Extension Educator, Extension Agent, Extension Educator
Knowledge:
- teaching and course design
- customer service
- management
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
- 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
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Independence
- Initiative
- Cooperation
Technology:
Internet browser software
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Web browser software
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Geographic information system GIS software
