Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

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.

• Examining eyes, using observation, instruments and pharmaceutical agents, for determining visual acuity and perception, focus and coordination and for diagnosing diseases and other abnormalities such as glaucoma or color blindness.
• Analyzing testing results and developing treatment plans.
• Prescribing, supplying, fitting and adjusting eyeglasses, contact-lenses and other vision aids.
• Prescribing medications for treating eye diseases if state laws permit.
• Educating and counseling patients on caring for their contact-lenses, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements and safety factors.
• Consulting with and referring patients to ophthalmologist or other health caring practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.
• Removing foreign bodies from the eye.
• Providing patients undergoing eye surgeries, such as cataract and laser vision correction, with pre and post operative caring.
• Prescribing therapeutic procedures for correcting or conserving vision.
• Providing vision therapy and low vision rehabilitation.