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.

Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

• Developing and maintaining liaisons and effective working relations with groups and individuals, agencies, and the public for encouraging cooperative management strategies or for developing information and interpreting findings.
• Collecting and analyzing biological data about relationships among and between organisms and their environment.
• Communicating testing results to state and federal representatives and general public.
• Identifying, classifying, and studying structure, behavior, ecology, physiology, nutrition, culture, and distribution of plants and animal species.
• Representing employer in a technical capacity at conferences.
• Planning and administering biological researching programs for government, researching firms, medical industries, or manufacturing firms.
• Researching environmental effects of current and potential uses of land and water areas, determining methods of improving environmental conditions or such outputs as crop yields.