Overview
All Other Medical Practitioners
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Unavailable Weekly Pay
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Strong Future Growth
Pathologists
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2,100 workers Employment Size
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Very high skill Skill level rating
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69% Full-Time Full-Time Share
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44 hours Average full-time
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45 years Average age
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62% female Gender Share
Pathologists identify the cause and processes of disease and illness by examining changes in body tissue and in blood and other body fluids, and conduct tests on samples of tissues, blood and body secretions.
Specialisations: Clinical Cytopathologist, Forensic Pathologist, Immunologist.
You need to be a qualified Medical Practitioner and then complete further training with the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia to specialise as a Pathologist.
Tasks
- Conducts tests on body samples to determine nature, stage of development and possible source of illness.
- Studies effects of selected drugs on diseased organisms to find effective methods for treating specific patients.
- Performs autopsies.
- May apply scientific knowledge and skills to investigate crimes by analysis physical and biological evidence.
Prospects
The number of Pathologists grew very strongly over 5 years:
from 1,800 in 2011 to 2,100 in 2016.
Caution: These estimates do not take account of the impact of COVID-19. They may not reflect the current jobs market and should be used and interpreted with caution.
- Size: This is a very small occupation.
- Location: Pathologists work in many parts of Australia. New South Wales has a large share of workers.
- Industries: Most work in the Health Care and Social Assistance industry.
- Full-time: Many work full-time (69%, similar to the average of 66%).
- Hours: Full-time workers spend around 44 hours per week at work (compared to the average of 44 hours).
- Age: The average age is 45 years (compared to the average of 40 years). Many workers are 45 years or older (52%).
- Gender: 62% of workers are female (compared to the average of 48%).
Main Industries
Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Industries are based on the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC 06).
States and Territories
NSW
VIC
QLD
SA
WA
TAS
NT
ACT
Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Share of workers across Australian States and Territories, in this job compared to the all jobs average.
Age Profile
Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile of workers in this job compared to the all jobs average.
Education Level
Source: ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Highest qualification completed by workers in this job (in any field of study). Qualifications needed by new workers might be different from the qualifications of workers already in the job.
Pathways
You need to be a qualified Medical Practitioner and then complete further training with the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia to specialise as a Pathologist.
Registration with the Medical Board of Australia is required.
Before starting a course, check it will provide you with the skills and qualifications you need. Visit
- Course Seeker to search and compare higher education courses.
- ComparED to compare undergraduate and postgraduate student experiences and outcomes.
Skills & Knowledge
Employers look for Other Medical Practitioners who are caring and empathetic and can work well in a team, with the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people.
Filter Skills & Knowledge
Knowledge
These are important topics, subjects or knowledge areas.
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Medicine and dentistry
Diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including preventive health-care measures.
-
Biology
Plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, how they rely on and work with each other and the environment.
-
English language
English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
-
Education and training
Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
-
Customer and personal service
Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.
-
Computers and electronics
Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
-
Chemistry
Chemical composition, structure, and properties. How chemicals are made, used, mixed, and can change.
-
Clerical
Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.
-
Personnel and human resources
Recruiting and training people, managing pay and other entitlements (like sick leave), and negotiating pay and conditions.
-
Administration and management
Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.
-
Public safety and security
Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions.
-
Psychology
Human behaviour; differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; research methods; assessing and treating disorders.
-
Law and government
How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system.
-
Mathematics
Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.
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Production and processing
Raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and ways of making and distributing goods.
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Communications and media
Media production, communication, and dissemination. Includes written, spoken, and visual media.
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Economics and accounting
Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.
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Engineering and technology
Use engineering, science and technology to design and produce goods and services.
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Physics
The physical laws of matter, motion and energy, and how they interact through space and time.
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Sales and marketing
Showing, promoting, and selling including marketing strategy, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
Skills
Skills can be improved through training or experience.
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Reading comprehension
Reading work related information.
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Active learning
Being able to use what you have learnt to solve problems now and again in the future.
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Critical thinking
Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
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Writing
Writing things for co-workers or customers.
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Instructing
Teaching people how to do something.
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Judgment and decision making
Figuring out the pros and cons of different options and choosing the best one.
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Complex problem solving
Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
-
Speaking
Talking to others.
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Active listening
Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
-
Science
Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
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Monitoring
Keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes or improvements.
-
Learning strategies
Figuring out the best way to teach or learn something new.
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Coordination with others
Being adaptable and coordinating work with other people.
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Management of personnel resources
Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and choosing the best people for the job.
-
Time management
Managing your own and other peoples' time to get work done.
-
Social perceptiveness
Understanding why people react the way they do.
-
Systems analysis
Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect it.
-
Systems evaluation
Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
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Management of material resources
Providing the right equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do work.
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Serving others
Looking for ways to help people.
Abilities
Workers use these physical and mental abilities.
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Inductive reasoning
Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.
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Problem spotting
Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.
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Oral comprehension
Listen to and understand what people say.
-
Oral expression
Communicate by speaking.
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Deductive reasoning
Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.
-
Written comprehension
Read and understand written information.
-
Written expression
Write in a way that people can understand.
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Near vision
See details that are up-close (within a few feet).
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Sorting or ordering
Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
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Categorising
Come up with different ways of grouping things.
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Flexibility of closure
See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.
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Speech clarity
Speak clearly so others can understand you.
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Speed of recognition
Quickly make sense of and organize things you can see like letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
-
Speech recognition
Identify and understand the speech of another person.
-
Brainstorming
Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.
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Finger dexterity
Put together small parts with your fingers.
-
Colour discrimination
Notice differences between colours, including shades of colour and brightness.
-
Perceptual speed
Use your eyes to quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
-
Memorization
Remember things like words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
-
Selective attention
Pay attention to something without being distracted.
Activities
These are kinds of activities workers regularly do in this job.
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Making decisions and solving problems
Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems.
-
Looking for changes over time
Comparing objects, actions, or events. Looking for differences between them or changes over time.
-
Keeping your knowledge up-to-date
Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas.
-
Researching and investigating
Looking for, getting and understanding different kinds of information.
-
Monitoring people, processes and things
Checking objects, actions, or events, and keeping an eye out for problems.
-
Making sense of information and ideas
Looking at, working with, and understanding data or information.
-
Communicating within a team
Giving information to co-workers by telephone, in writing, or in person.
-
Collecting and organising information
Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or checking information or data.
-
Documenting or recording information
Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
-
Training and teaching others
Understanding the needs of others, developing training programs, and teaching or instructing.
-
Checking compliance with standards
Deciding whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
-
Giving expert advice
Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups.
-
Planning and prioritising work
Deciding on goals and putting together a detailed plan to get the work done.
-
Building good relationships
Building good working relationships and keeping them over time.
-
Explaining things to people
Helping people to understand and use information.
-
Communicating with the public
Giving information to the public, business or government by telephone, in writing, or in person.
-
Thinking creatively
Using your own ideas for developing, designing, or creating something new.
-
Estimating amounts, costs and resources
Working out sizes, distances, amounts, time, costs, resources, or materials needed for a task.
-
Providing office support
Doing day-to-day office work such as filing and processing paperwork.
-
Working with computers
Using computers to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

O*NET is a trademark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.
The skills and importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 29-1069.07 - Pathologists.
Work Environment
Learn about the daily activities, and physical and social demands faced by workers. Explore the values and work styles that workers rate as most important.
Filter Work Environment
Demands
The physical and social demands workers face most often are shown below.
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Being exact or accurate
Be very exact or highly accurate.
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Freedom to make decisions
Have freedom to make decision on your own.
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Frequent decision making
Frequently make decisions that impact other people.
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Impact of decisions
Make decisions that have a large impact on other people.
-
Face-to-face discussions
Talk with people face-to-face.
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Telephone
Talk on the telephone.
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Unstructured work
Have freedom to decide on tasks, priorities, and goals.
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Indoors, heat controlled
Work indoors with access to heating or cooling.
-
Time pressure
Work to strict deadlines.
-
Consequence of error
Work where mistakes have serious consequences.
-
Electronic mail
Use electronic mail.
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Contact with people
Have contact with people by telephone, face-to-face, or any other way.
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Disease or infection
Be exposed to disease or infections.
-
Teamwork
Work with people in a group or team.
-
Wear common protective or safety equipment
Wear equipment like safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets.
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Spend time sitting
Spend time sitting at work.
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Letters and memos
Write letters and memos.
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Responsible for outcomes
Take responsibility for the results of other people's work.
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Health and safety of others
Take responsibility for the health and safety of others.
-
Competition
Compete with others, or be aware of competitive pressures.
Values
Work values are important to a person’s feeling of satisfaction. All six values are shown below.
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Achievement
Results oriented. Workers are able to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment.
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Independence
Work alone and make decisions. Workers are able to try out their own ideas, make decisions on their own, and work with little or no supervision.
-
Recognition
Advancement and the potential to lead. Workers are recognised for the work that they do, they may give directions and instructions to others, and they are looked up to in their company and their community.
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Working conditions
Job security and good working conditions. There is usually a steady flow of interesting work, and the pay and conditions are generally good.
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Support
Supportive management that stands behind employees. Workers are treated fairly by their company, they are supported by management, and have supervisors who train them well.
-
Relationships
Serve and work with others. Workers usually get along well with each other, do things to help other people, and are rarely pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.
Interests
Interests are the style or type of work we prefer to do. All interest areas are shown below.
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Analytical
Ideas and thinking. Searching for facts and figuring out problems in your head.
-
Practical
Practical, hands-on work. Often with plants and animals, or materials like wood, tools, and machinery.
-
Administrative
Following set procedures and routines. Working with numbers and details more than with ideas, usually following rules.
-
Helping
Working with people. Helping or providing service to others.
-
Creative
Working with forms, designs and patterns. Often need self-expression and can be done without following rules.
-
Enterprising
Starting up and carrying out projects. Leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes require risk taking and often deal with business.

O*NET is a trademark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.
The skills and importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 29-1069.07 - Pathologists.
All Other Medical Practitioners
-
Unavailable Weekly Pay
-
Strong Future Growth
Pathologists
-
2,100 workers Employment Size
-
Very high skill Skill level rating
-
69% Full-Time Full-Time Share
-
44 hours Average full-time
-
45 years Average age
-
62% female Gender Share
Pathologists identify the cause and processes of disease and illness by examining changes in body tissue and in blood and other body fluids, and conduct tests on samples of tissues, blood and body secretions.
Specialisations: Clinical Cytopathologist, Forensic Pathologist, Immunologist.
You need to be a qualified Medical Practitioner and then complete further training with the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia to specialise as a Pathologist.
Tasks
- Conducts tests on body samples to determine nature, stage of development and possible source of illness.
- Studies effects of selected drugs on diseased organisms to find effective methods for treating specific patients.
- Performs autopsies.
- May apply scientific knowledge and skills to investigate crimes by analysis physical and biological evidence.
The number of Pathologists grew very strongly over 5 years:
from 1,800 in 2011 to 2,100 in 2016.
Caution: These estimates do not take account of the impact of COVID-19. They may not reflect the current jobs market and should be used and interpreted with caution.
- Size: This is a very small occupation.
- Location: Pathologists work in many parts of Australia. New South Wales has a large share of workers.
- Industries: Most work in the Health Care and Social Assistance industry.
- Full-time: Many work full-time (69%, similar to the average of 66%).
- Hours: Full-time workers spend around 44 hours per week at work (compared to the average of 44 hours).
- Age: The average age is 45 years (compared to the average of 40 years). Many workers are 45 years or older (52%).
- Gender: 62% of workers are female (compared to the average of 48%).
Main Industries
Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Industries are based on the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC 06).
States and Territories
NSW
VIC
QLD
SA
WA
TAS
NT
ACT
Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Share of workers across Australian States and Territories, in this job compared to the all jobs average.
Age Profile
Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile of workers in this job compared to the all jobs average.
Education Level
Source: ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Highest qualification completed by workers in this job (in any field of study). Qualifications needed by new workers might be different from the qualifications of workers already in the job.
You need to be a qualified Medical Practitioner and then complete further training with the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia to specialise as a Pathologist.
Registration with the Medical Board of Australia is required.
Before starting a course, check it will provide you with the skills and qualifications you need. Visit
- Course Seeker to search and compare higher education courses.
- ComparED to compare undergraduate and postgraduate student experiences and outcomes.
Employers look for Other Medical Practitioners who are caring and empathetic and can work well in a team, with the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people.
Filter Skills & Knowledge
Knowledge
These are important topics, subjects or knowledge areas.
-
Medicine and dentistry
Diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including preventive health-care measures.
-
Biology
Plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, how they rely on and work with each other and the environment.
-
English language
English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
-
Education and training
Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
-
Customer and personal service
Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.
-
Computers and electronics
Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
-
Chemistry
Chemical composition, structure, and properties. How chemicals are made, used, mixed, and can change.
-
Clerical
Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.
-
Personnel and human resources
Recruiting and training people, managing pay and other entitlements (like sick leave), and negotiating pay and conditions.
-
Administration and management
Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.
-
Public safety and security
Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions.
-
Psychology
Human behaviour; differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; research methods; assessing and treating disorders.
-
Law and government
How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system.
-
Mathematics
Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.
-
Production and processing
Raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and ways of making and distributing goods.
-
Communications and media
Media production, communication, and dissemination. Includes written, spoken, and visual media.
-
Economics and accounting
Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.
-
Engineering and technology
Use engineering, science and technology to design and produce goods and services.
-
Physics
The physical laws of matter, motion and energy, and how they interact through space and time.
-
Sales and marketing
Showing, promoting, and selling including marketing strategy, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
Skills
Skills can be improved through training or experience.
-
Reading comprehension
Reading work related information.
-
Active learning
Being able to use what you have learnt to solve problems now and again in the future.
-
Critical thinking
Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
-
Writing
Writing things for co-workers or customers.
-
Instructing
Teaching people how to do something.
-
Judgment and decision making
Figuring out the pros and cons of different options and choosing the best one.
-
Complex problem solving
Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
-
Speaking
Talking to others.
-
Active listening
Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
-
Science
Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
-
Monitoring
Keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes or improvements.
-
Learning strategies
Figuring out the best way to teach or learn something new.
-
Coordination with others
Being adaptable and coordinating work with other people.
-
Management of personnel resources
Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and choosing the best people for the job.
-
Time management
Managing your own and other peoples' time to get work done.
-
Social perceptiveness
Understanding why people react the way they do.
-
Systems analysis
Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect it.
-
Systems evaluation
Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
-
Management of material resources
Providing the right equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do work.
-
Serving others
Looking for ways to help people.
Abilities
Workers use these physical and mental abilities.
-
Inductive reasoning
Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.
-
Problem spotting
Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.
-
Oral comprehension
Listen to and understand what people say.
-
Oral expression
Communicate by speaking.
-
Deductive reasoning
Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.
-
Written comprehension
Read and understand written information.
-
Written expression
Write in a way that people can understand.
-
Near vision
See details that are up-close (within a few feet).
-
Sorting or ordering
Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
-
Categorising
Come up with different ways of grouping things.
-
Flexibility of closure
See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.
-
Speech clarity
Speak clearly so others can understand you.
-
Speed of recognition
Quickly make sense of and organize things you can see like letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
-
Speech recognition
Identify and understand the speech of another person.
-
Brainstorming
Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.
-
Finger dexterity
Put together small parts with your fingers.
-
Colour discrimination
Notice differences between colours, including shades of colour and brightness.
-
Perceptual speed
Use your eyes to quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
-
Memorization
Remember things like words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
-
Selective attention
Pay attention to something without being distracted.
Activities
These are kinds of activities workers regularly do in this job.
-
Making decisions and solving problems
Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems.
-
Looking for changes over time
Comparing objects, actions, or events. Looking for differences between them or changes over time.
-
Keeping your knowledge up-to-date
Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas.
-
Researching and investigating
Looking for, getting and understanding different kinds of information.
-
Monitoring people, processes and things
Checking objects, actions, or events, and keeping an eye out for problems.
-
Making sense of information and ideas
Looking at, working with, and understanding data or information.
-
Communicating within a team
Giving information to co-workers by telephone, in writing, or in person.
-
Collecting and organising information
Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or checking information or data.
-
Documenting or recording information
Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
-
Training and teaching others
Understanding the needs of others, developing training programs, and teaching or instructing.
-
Checking compliance with standards
Deciding whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
-
Giving expert advice
Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups.
-
Planning and prioritising work
Deciding on goals and putting together a detailed plan to get the work done.
-
Building good relationships
Building good working relationships and keeping them over time.
-
Explaining things to people
Helping people to understand and use information.
-
Communicating with the public
Giving information to the public, business or government by telephone, in writing, or in person.
-
Thinking creatively
Using your own ideas for developing, designing, or creating something new.
-
Estimating amounts, costs and resources
Working out sizes, distances, amounts, time, costs, resources, or materials needed for a task.
-
Providing office support
Doing day-to-day office work such as filing and processing paperwork.
-
Working with computers
Using computers to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

O*NET is a trademark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.
The skills and importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 29-1069.07 - Pathologists.
Learn about the daily activities, and physical and social demands faced by workers. Explore the values and work styles that workers rate as most important.
Filter Work Environment
Demands
The physical and social demands workers face most often are shown below.
-
Being exact or accurate
Be very exact or highly accurate.
-
Freedom to make decisions
Have freedom to make decision on your own.
-
Frequent decision making
Frequently make decisions that impact other people.
-
Impact of decisions
Make decisions that have a large impact on other people.
-
Face-to-face discussions
Talk with people face-to-face.
-
Telephone
Talk on the telephone.
-
Unstructured work
Have freedom to decide on tasks, priorities, and goals.
-
Indoors, heat controlled
Work indoors with access to heating or cooling.
-
Time pressure
Work to strict deadlines.
-
Consequence of error
Work where mistakes have serious consequences.
-
Electronic mail
Use electronic mail.
-
Contact with people
Have contact with people by telephone, face-to-face, or any other way.
-
Disease or infection
Be exposed to disease or infections.
-
Teamwork
Work with people in a group or team.
-
Wear common protective or safety equipment
Wear equipment like safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets.
-
Spend time sitting
Spend time sitting at work.
-
Letters and memos
Write letters and memos.
-
Responsible for outcomes
Take responsibility for the results of other people's work.
-
Health and safety of others
Take responsibility for the health and safety of others.
-
Competition
Compete with others, or be aware of competitive pressures.
Values
Work values are important to a person’s feeling of satisfaction. All six values are shown below.
-
Achievement
Results oriented. Workers are able to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment.
-
Independence
Work alone and make decisions. Workers are able to try out their own ideas, make decisions on their own, and work with little or no supervision.
-
Recognition
Advancement and the potential to lead. Workers are recognised for the work that they do, they may give directions and instructions to others, and they are looked up to in their company and their community.
-
Working conditions
Job security and good working conditions. There is usually a steady flow of interesting work, and the pay and conditions are generally good.
-
Support
Supportive management that stands behind employees. Workers are treated fairly by their company, they are supported by management, and have supervisors who train them well.
-
Relationships
Serve and work with others. Workers usually get along well with each other, do things to help other people, and are rarely pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.
Interests
Interests are the style or type of work we prefer to do. All interest areas are shown below.
-
Analytical
Ideas and thinking. Searching for facts and figuring out problems in your head.
-
Practical
Practical, hands-on work. Often with plants and animals, or materials like wood, tools, and machinery.
-
Administrative
Following set procedures and routines. Working with numbers and details more than with ideas, usually following rules.
-
Helping
Working with people. Helping or providing service to others.
-
Creative
Working with forms, designs and patterns. Often need self-expression and can be done without following rules.
-
Enterprising
Starting up and carrying out projects. Leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes require risk taking and often deal with business.

O*NET is a trademark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.
The skills and importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 29-1069.07 - Pathologists.