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.

• Counseling and instructing patients and their families in techniques for improving hearing and communication related to hearing loss.
• Evaluating hearing and balance disorders for determining diagnoses and courses of treatment.
• Programming and monitoring cochlear implants for fitting the needs of patients.
• Participating in conferences or training for updating or sharing knowledge of new hearing or balance disorder treatment methods or technologies.
• Conducting or directing researching on hearing or balance topics and reporting findings for helping in the development of procedures, technology, or treatments.
• Planning and conducting treatment programs for patients’ hearing or balance problems, consulting with educators, physicians, nurses, psychologists, speech language pathologists, and other health caring personnel as necessary.
• Administering hearing tests and examining patients to collecting information on types and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.