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Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who assists auctioneer at auction by tagging and arranging articles for sale, calling out lot and item numbers, and holding or displaying articles being auctioned. Respnsibilities include: * Receives and stores incoming merchandise to be auctioned. * Writes assigned record numbers on tags and wires tags to articles. * Arranges articles into group lots, according to similarity of type of merchandise, such as household goods, art objects, jewelry, and furniture. * Assigns lot and item numbers to grouped articles and records numbers on tags and in record book. * Calls out lot and item numbers of article being auctioned and holds or otherwise displays article during bidding. * Assists final bidders in locating purchased items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in renting and maintaining safe-deposit boxes. Respnsibilities include: * Turns controls to set vault clock for reopening. * Authorizes forcing, servicing, and repair of safe-deposit box locks. * Approves or disapproves rentals and requests for admittance to safe-deposit boxes in accordance with bank regulations. * Develops, implements, and evaluates improved procedures for safe deposit operations. * Monitors prices charged by competitors, recommends rental fees for safe-deposit boxes, and develops marketing plan to advertise safe-deposit services. * Prepares cost, expense, and budget reports. * Keeps departmental records. * Trains and assigns duties to new employees. * May open and close vault. * May admit customer to vault. * Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in renting and maintaining safe-deposit boxes. Respnsibilities include: * Turns controls to set vault clock for reopening. * Authorizes forcing, servicing, and repair of safe-deposit box locks. * Approves or disapproves rentals and requests for admittance to safe-deposit boxes in accordance with bank regulations. * Develops, implements, and evaluates improved procedures for safe deposit operations. * Monitors prices charged by competitors, recommends rental fees for safe-deposit boxes, and develops marketing plan to advertise safe-deposit services. * Prepares cost, expense, and budget reports. * Keeps departmental records. * Trains and assigns duties to new employees. * May open and close vault. * May admit customer to vault. * Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents formal clothes or costumes to customers. Respnsibilities include: * Talks to customer to determine clothing needs, date needed, quantity, style, color, and size. * Shows customers available or appropriate garments. * Explains rental fee to customer. * Orders or reserves garment selected. * Packages garments selected with complimentary accessories, such as cuff links, cummerbunds, neckties, and studs, and places in protective bag or box. * Obtains suitable identification and deposit as security from customer. * Computes rental charge and tax and prepares bill for customer. * Collects money from customer or charges bill on customer's credit card. * Examines garments for damages, and designates garments for cleaning or repair. * May mark garments on customer for alteration. * May sew buttons, hooks, hems, snaps, tears, or make minor alterations, by hand or using sewing machine. * May mail or deliver rented garments to customer. * May mail advertising material to customers. * May return cleaned or repaired garments to stock. * May be designated according to type of garments rented as Costume-Rental Clerk; Formal-Wear-Rental Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents tools and equipment to customers. Respnsibilities include: * Suggests tools or equipment, based on work to be done. * Prepares rental form and quotes rental rates to customer. * Starts power equipment to ensure performance prior to issuance to customer. * Computes rental fee based on hourly or daily rate. * Cleans, lubricates, and adjusts power tools and equipment. * May drive truck or use handtruck to deliver tools or equipment to customer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents tools and equipment to customers. Respnsibilities include: * Suggests tools or equipment, based on work to be done. * Prepares rental form and quotes rental rates to customer. * Starts power equipment to ensure performance prior to issuance to customer. * Computes rental fee based on hourly or daily rate. * Cleans, lubricates, and adjusts power tools and equipment. * May drive truck or use handtruck to deliver tools or equipment to customer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents furniture and accessories to customers. Respnsibilities include: * Talks to customer to determine furniture preferences and requirements. * Guides or accompanies customer through showroom, answers questions, and advises customer on compatibility of various styles and colors of furniture items. * Compiles list of customer-selected items. * Computes rental fee, explains rental terms, and presents list to customer for approval. * Prepares order form and lease agreement, explains terms of lease to customer, and obtains customer signature. * Obtains credit information from customer. * Forwards forms to credit office for verification of customer credit status and approval of order. * Collects initial payment from customer. * Contacts customers to encourage followup transactions. * May visit commercial customer site to solicit rental contracts, or review floor plans of new construction and suggest suitable furnishings. * May sell furniture or accessories.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who charters or rents airplanes to licensed pilots, licensed flight instructors, or charters aircraft to passenger-customers with company pilot. Respnsibilities include: * Determines purpose, destination, dates and time of flight, and number of passengers to select appropriate airplane for charter. * Examines pilot's license to assure customer is qualified to pilot aircraft or is qualified to train students, or notifies company pilot of requested flight. * Prepares rental or charter forms and secures customer's signature. * Reserves airplane and records flight information in logbook. * Informs other workers to fuel, clean, and move airplane to flight line. * Computes customer's charges based on hours flown and company rate schedule. * Receives payment or records credit charges. * Prepares monthly bills. * Requisitions and keeps records of office and airplane supplies. * May inspect airplanes periodically to check if they are properly cleaned and serviced. * May file flight plans with airport traffic controller. * May provide pilots with weather forecasts and airplane specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents baby strollers and wheelchairs in shopping or recreation and amusement areas. Respnsibilities include: * Explains rental terms to customers. * Unfolds or pushes stroller or wheelchair from storage area. * Explains to customers how to use stroller or wheelchair. * Accepts cash, driver's license, or credit cards as deposit for stroller or wheelchair. * Accepts rental fee and makes change. * Occasionally cleans strollers and wheelchairs and inspects for damage. * May adjust parts of strollers or wheelchairs to correct defect, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rents films and audio-visual equipment to individuals and organizations, such as schools, churches, clubs, and business firms. Respnsibilities include: * Views incoming films to familiarize self with content. * Recommends films on specific subjects to show to designated group, utilizing knowledge of film content, availability of film, and rental charge. * Determines and quotes rental charges for film, depending on purpose for showing film, number of times to be shown, and size of audience. * Writes orders, listing shipping date, show date, and method of shipping film. * Posts film rental dates on office records to complete reservation. * May write or type correspondence, invoices, and shipping labels. * May visit prospective or current customers to sell film-rental and audio-visual-equipment-renting service.
Industry:Professional careers