Loan Counselors
Provide guidance to prospective loan applicants who have problems qualifying for traditional loans. Guidance may include determining the best type of loan and explaining loan requirements or restrictions.
Also called: Financial Aid Advisor, Financial Aid Counselor, Financial Aid Director, Financial Aid Officer
Knowledge:
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- customer service
- administrative services
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- understanding people's reactions
- looking for ways to help people
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:
- listen and understand what people say
- read and understand what is written
- use rules to solve problems
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Self Control
- Cooperation
- Concern for Others
Technology:
Data base user interface and query software
- EDExpress
- ELM Resources ELM
Internet browser software
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Web browser software
