Geneticists
Research and study the inheritance of traits at the molecular, organism or population level. May evaluate or treat patients with genetic disorders.
Also called: Medical Geneticist, Research Scientist
Knowledge:
- biology
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- teaching and course design
Skills:
- reading work related information
- figuring out how to use new ideas or things
- 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:
- read and understand what is written
- communicate by writing
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
- 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
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Persistence
- Achievement/Effort
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- RTI International SUDAAN
- SAS/Genetics
Object or component oriented development software
- C++
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
Data base user interface and query software
- Database software
- Structured query language SQL