Soil & Water Conservationists
Plan or develop coordinated practices for soil erosion control, soil or water conservation, or sound land use.
Also called: Conservationist, Environmental Analyst, Resource Conservationist, Soil Conservationist
Knowledge:
- customer service
- management
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- 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:
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- do two or more things at the same time
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
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Attention to Detail
- Initiative
- Self Control
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- Clover Technology GALENA
- CropSyst Suite
Data base user interface and query software
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Geographic information system GIS software
