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.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Creating prints according to customer specifications and laboratory protocols.
• Examining developed prints for defects, such as broken lines, spots, or blurs.
• Filling tanks of processing machines with solutions such as developer, dyes, stop baths, fixers, bleaches, or washes.
• Immersing film, negatives, paper, or prints in developing solutions, fixing solutions, and water for completing photographic development processes.
• Loading circuit boards, racks or rolls of film, negatives, or printing paper into processing or printing machines.
• Loading digital images onto computers directly from cameras or from storage devices, such as flash memory cards or universal serial bus (USB) devices.
• Maintaining records, such as quantities or types of processing completed, materials used, or customer charges.
• Measuring and mixing chemicals to preparing solutions for processing, according to formulas.
• Monitoring equipment operation for detecting malfunctions.
• Operating machines for preparing circuit boards and for exposing, developing, etching, fixing, washing, drying, or printing film or plates.