Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Estimating material requirements and costs, and presenting design to client for approval.
• Conferring with client for determining factors affecting planning interior environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, and purpose and function.
• Selecting or design, and purchasing furnishings, art works, and accessories.
• Subcontracting fabricating, installing, and arranging carpeting, fixtures, accessories, draperies, paints and wall coverings, art works, furniture, and related items.
• Rendering the design ideas into mockups or drawings.
• Planning and designing interior environments for boats, planes, buses, trains, and other enclosed spaces.
• Coordinating with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, and plumbers, for ensuring job success.
• Reviewing and detail shop drawings for construction plans.
• Using computer aided drafting (CAD) and related software for producing construction documents.