Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

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.

• Coordinating efforts with other organizations, such as law enforcement agencies.
• Teaching fire investigation techniques to other firefighter personnel.
• Packaging collected pieces of evidence in securely closed containers, such as bags, crates, or boxes, for protecting them.
• Examining fire sites and collecting evidence such as glass, metal fragments, charred wood, and accelerant residue for using in determining the cause of a fire.
• Instructing children about the dangers of fire.
• Analyzing evidence and other information for determining probable cause of fire or explosion.
• Photographing damage and evidence related to causes of fires or explosions for documenting investigation findings.
• Subpoena and interviewing witnesses, property owners, and building occupants for obtaining information and sworn testimony.
• Procuring warrants and arresting and processing the suspected arsonists.
• Testifying in court cases involving fires, suspected arson, and false alarms.
• Preparing and maintaining reports of investigation results, and recordings of convicted arsonists and arson suspects.