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.

Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

• Examining cell samples for detecting abnormalities in the colors, shapes, or sizes of cellular components and patterns.
• Examining specimens, using microscopes, for evaluating specimen quality.
• Preparing and analyzing samples, such as Papanicolaou (PAP) smear body fluids and fine needle aspirations (fnas), for detecting abnormal conditions.
• Providing patient clinical data or microscopic findings to assisting pathologists in the preparation of pathology reports.
• Assisting pathologists or other physicians to collecting cell samples by fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy or other method.
• Examining specimens for detecting abnormal hormone conditions.
• Documenting specimens by verifying patients’ and specimens’ information.
• Maintaining effective laboratory operations by adhering to standards of specimen collection, preparation, or laboratory safety.
• Performing karyotyping or organizing of chromosomes according to standardized ideograms.