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.

• Purchasing and maintaining equipment for supporting researching projects.
• Reviewing papers or serving on editorial boards for scientific journals, and reviewing grant proposals for federal agencies.
• Answering questions from the public and media.
• Conducting researching in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
• Writing grant proposals for procuring external researching funding.
• Keeping abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Supervising undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and researching working.
• Preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as structural geology, micrometeorology, and atmospheric thermodynamics.
• Supervising laboratory working and field working.
• Evaluating and grading students’ class working, assignments, and papers.
• Preparing course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.