Mentor

Any mentor is expected to perform well at:
- Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Convincing others to accept and idea or to otherwise change their minds or actions in accordance to the companies objectives.
- Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Technician

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.
Other work activities related to Biological science teachers, postsecondary
- Preparing materials for laboratory activities and course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Assisting students who need additional assistance with their coursework outside of classes.
- Providing students course related experiences, such as field trips, outside the classroom.
- Reviewing papers for publication in journals.
- Participating in campus and community events, such as giving presentations to the public.
- Preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as molecular biology, marine biology, and botany.
- Evaluating and grading students’ class working, laboratory working, assignments, and papers.
- Compiling, administering, and grading examinations, or assigning this working to others.
- Supervising students’ laboratory working.
- Keeping abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Maintaining student attendance records, grades, and other required records.