First-Line Supervisors of Animal Husbandry & Animal Care Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of animal husbandry or animal care workers.
Also called: Animal Care Supervisor, Animal Caretaker Supervisor, Cattle Manager, Sow Farm Manager
Knowledge:
- management
- customer service
- teaching and course design
Skills:
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
- understanding people's reactions
- selecting and managing the best workers for a job
- managing your time and the time of other people
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
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Self Control
- Cooperation
- Adaptability/Flexibility
Technology:
Data base user interface and query software
- Data entry software
- Valley Agricultural Software DairyCOMP 305
Education:
certificate after high school
