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Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Abilities

%	Subject	Description
72.00	Oral Comprehension	The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
72.00	Visual Color Discrimination	The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
72.00	Problem Sensitivity	The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
72.00	Near Vision	The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
68.75	Arm-Hand Steadiness	The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
65.50	Finger Dexterity	The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
65.50	Manual Dexterity	The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
62.50	Deductive Reasoning	The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
62.50	Inductive Reasoning	The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
62.50	Information Ordering	The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
59.50	Oral Expression	The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
59.50	Speech Recognition	The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
59.50	Multilimb Coordination	The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
59.50	Flexibility of Closure	The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
59.50	Speech Clarity	The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
56.25	Far Vision	The ability to see details at a distance.
56.25	Control Precision	The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
56.25	Perceptual Speed	The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
56.25	Visualization	The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
53.00	Written Comprehension	The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
53.00	Category Flexibility	The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
53.00	Selective Attention	The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
53.00	Extent Flexibility	The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
50.00	Fluency of Ideas	The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
50.00	Memorization	The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
50.00	Speed of Closure	The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
50.00	Gross Body Equilibrium	The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
50.00	Static Strength	The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
50.00	Trunk Strength	The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
50.00	Gross Body Coordination	The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
50.00	Auditory Attention	The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
50.00	Depth Perception	The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.

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