Innovator

Archetype 5 Innovator

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.

Inspector

Archetype 6 Inspector

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.

Other work activities related to Cytogenetic technologists

  • Developing and implementing training programs for trainees, medical students, resident physicians or post doctoral fellows.
  • Staining slides for making chromosomes visible for microscopy.
  • Summarizing testing results and reporting to appropriate authorities.
  • Selecting or preparing specimens and media for cell cultures using aseptic techniques, knowledge of medium components, or cell nutritional requirements.
  • Selecting banding methods to permit identification of chromosome pairs.
  • Identifying appropriate methods of specimen collection, preservation, or transportation.
  • Preparing slides of cell cultures following standard procedures.
  • Selecting appropriate methods of preparation and storage of media for maintaining potential of hydrogen (ph), sterility, or ability for supporting growth.
  • Harvesting cell cultures using substances such as mitotic arrestants, cell releasing agents, and cell fixatives.
  • Creating chromosome images using computer imaging systems.
  • Determining optimal time sequences and methods for manual or robotic cell harvests.