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.

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.

• Obtaining and verifying evidence by interviewing and observing suspects and witnesses or by analyzing records.
• Recording evidence and documents, using equipment such as cameras and photocopy machines.
• Examining records for locating links in chains of evidence or information.
• Preparing reports that detail investigation findings.
• Collaborating with other offices and agencies for exchanging information and coordinating activities.
• Determining scope, timing, and direction of investigations.
• Testifying before grand juries concerning criminal activity investigations.
• Analyzing evidence in laboratories or in the field.
• Investigating organized crime, public corruption, financial crime, copyright infringement, civil rights violations, bank robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and other violations of federal or state statutes.
• Identifying case issues and evidence needed, based on analysis of charges, complaints, or allegations of law violations.
• Obtaining and using search and arrest warrants.
• Serving subpoenas or other official papers.