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.

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.

• Reading job orders for determining the types of works to be done, the quantities to be produced, and the materials needed.
• Operating office machines such as high speed business photocopiers, readers, scanners, addressing machines, stencil cutting machines, microfilm readers or printers, folding and inserting machines, bursters, and binder machines.
• Placing original copies in loading trays, loading originals into loading rolls, or positioning the originals on tables beneath camera lenses.
• Computing prices for services and receiving payment, or providing supervisors with billing information.
• Sorting, assembling, and proof completed working.
• Setting up and adjusting machines, regulating factors such as speed, ink flow, focus, and number of copies.
• Monitoring machine operation, and making adjustments as necessary for ensuring proper operation.
• Loading machines with materials such as blank paper or film.
• Maintaining stocks of supplies, and requisitioning any needed items.
• Filing and storing completed documents.