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.

• Reviewing cases by analyzing autopsies, laboratory findings, or case investigation reports.
• Managing medical laboratories.
• Reading current literature, talk with colleagues, or participating in professional organizations or conferences for keeping abreast of developments in pathology.
• Developing or adopt new tests or instruments for improving diagnosis of diseases.
• Educating physicians, students, and other personnel in medical laboratory professions such as medical technology, cytotechnology, or histotechnology.
• Conducting researching and presenting scientific findings.
• Performing autopsies for determining causes of deaths.
• Planning and supervising the working of the pathology staff, residents or visiting pathologists.
• Obtaining specimens by performing procedures such as biopsies or fine need aspirations (fnas) of superficial nodules.
• Diagnosing infections, such as Hepatitis B and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), by conducting tests for detecting the antibodies that patients’ immune systems are producing for fighting such infections.