Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

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.

• Cutting sections of body tissues for microscopic examination using microtomes.
• Embedding tissue specimens into paraffin wax blocks or infiltrate tissue specimens with wax.
• Freeze tissue specimens.
• Mounting tissue specimens on glass slides.
• Staining tissue specimens with dyes or other chemicals for making cell details visible under microscopes.
• Examining slides under microscopes for ensuring tissue preparation meets laboratory requirements.
• Identifying tissue structures or cell components to be used in the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of diseases.
• Operating computerized laboratory equipment for dehydrating, decalcifying, or microincinerating tissue samples.
• Performing electron microscopy or mass spectrometry for analyzing specimens.
• Performing procedures associated with histochemistry to preparing specimens for immunofluorescence or microscopy.
• Maintaining laboratory equipment such as microscopes, mass spectrometers, microtomes, immunostainers, tissue processors, embedding centers, and water baths.