Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

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.

• Taking dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines.
• Transcribing dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
• Reviewing and editing transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
• Distinguish between homonyms and recognizing inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
• Returning dictated reports in printed or electronic forms for physician’s reviewing, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients’ medical records.
• Translating medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms for ensuring the accuracy of patient and health caring facility records.
• Identifying mistakes in reports and checking with doctors for obtaining the adequate information.