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O*NET detailed work activityDirect scientific activities
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Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.
Part of Direct scientific or technical activities, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 3 AI-assist, 4 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Direct, coordinate, organize, or prioritize biological laboratory activities.
- Study celestial phenomena, using a variety of ground-based and space-borne telescopes and scientific instruments.
- Direct urban traffic counting programs.
- Direct the operations of a planetarium.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Support, plan, and coordinate operations for single or multiple surveys.
- Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations.
- Lead field training sites and train field staff, students, and volunteers in excavation methods.