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Childcare Workers

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.

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  • Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for people with disabilities.
  • Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
  • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
  • Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
  • Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
  • Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
  • Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
  • Provide care for children with physical, developmental, or mental health disabilities.
  • Sanitize toys and play equipment.
  • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
  • Help children with homework and school work.
  • Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
  • Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
  • Observe and monitor children's play activities.
  • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
  • Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
  • Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
  • Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
  • Dress children and change diapers.
  • Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
  • Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
  • Regulate children's rest periods.
  • Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
  • Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
  • Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
  • Maintain a safe play environment.
  • Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for people with disabilities.
  • Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
  • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
  • Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
  • Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
  • Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
  • Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
  • Provide care for children with physical, developmental, or mental health disabilities.
  • Sanitize toys and play equipment.
  • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
  • Help children with homework and school work.
  • Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
  • Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
  • Observe and monitor children's play activities.
  • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
  • Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
  • Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
  • Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
  • Dress children and change diapers.
  • Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
  • Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
  • Regulate children's rest periods.
  • Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
  • Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
  • Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
  • Maintain a safe play environment.
  • Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.

Skills

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
0
Workplace Documents
4
Graphic Literacy
3

Abilities

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

Knowledge

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $37,400
    $28,230
    $22,860
    Ohio
    US
    $44,560
    $32,050
    $22,900
  • Typical Hourly Wage
  • $18
    $14
    $11
    Ohio
    US
    $21
    $15
    $11

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 26,400
  • Yearly Projected Openings 4360

Typical Education

Personality

Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Self Control
  • Concern for Others
  • Integrity
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Cooperation
  • Attention to Detail

Tools

  • Alarm systems
  • Automobiles or cars
  • Balance or gross motor equipment
  • Building blocks
  • Car seats
  • Carriages or perambulators or strollers
  • Cognitive toys
  • Desktop computers
  • Domestic clothes washers
  • Domestic microwave ovens
  • Domestic ranges
  • Domestic tumble dryers
  • Feeding bottles
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Mobile medical services first aid kits
  • Mobile phones
  • Notebook computers
  • Oral or enteral liquid medication syringe
  • Personal computers
  • Photocopiers
  • Sand or water tables or activity centers
  • Vacuum cleaners
  • Wet mops

Technology

  • Calendar and scheduling software
  • Computer based training software
  • Desktop communications software
  • Internet browser software
  • Multi-media educational software
  • Office suite software
  • Project management software
  • Word processing software

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