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O*NET detailed work activityCollect information from people through observation, interviews, or surveys
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Use AI to prepare better questions and to organize your notes afterward. Listening to the person in front of you is yours.
Part of Collect information about patients or clients, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 22 AI-assist, 1 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Interview patients to obtain comprehensive medical histories.
- Interview patients to obtain comprehensive medical histories.
- Collect information about individuals or clients, using interviews, case histories, observational techniques, and other assessment methods.
- Conduct surveys and collect data, using methods such as interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, market analysis surveys, public opinion polls, literature reviews, and file reviews.
- Assess an individual child's needs, limitations, and potential, using observation, review of school records, and consultation with parents and school personnel.
- Obtain and study medical, psychological, social, and family histories by interviewing individuals, couples, or families and by reviewing records.
- Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
- Collect data about the attitudes, values, and behaviors of people in groups, using observation, interviews, and review of documents.
- Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and review of documents.
- Conduct research to gather information about survey topics.
- Observe and interview workers to obtain information about the physical, mental, and educational requirements of jobs, as well as information about aspects such as job satisfaction.
- Observe group interactions and role affiliations to collect data, identify problems, evaluate progress, and determine the need for additional change.
- Interview individuals, and research public databases in order to obtain information.
- Obtain informed consent of research subjects or their guardians.
- Conduct interviews, surveys and site inspections concerning factors that affect land usage, such as zoning, traffic flow and housing.
- Observe individuals at play, in group interactions, or in other contexts to detect indications of cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
- Perform on-site field work which may involve interviewing people, inspecting and identifying artifacts, note-taking, viewing sites and collections, and repainting exhibition spaces.
- Visit suppliers of materials or users of products to gather specific information.
- Collect data through surveys or experimentation.
- Interview people to gather information about historical events and to record oral histories.
- Interview specialists in desired fields to obtain and develop data for park information programs.
- Study consumers' reactions to new products and package designs, and to advertising efforts, using surveys and tests.