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.

• Preparing notes, sketches, geological maps, or cross sections.
• Reading and studying reports for compiling information and data for geological and geophysical prospecting.
• Interviewing individuals, and researching public databases for obtaining information.
• Assembling, maintaining, or distributing information for library or registry systems.
• Operating or adjusting equipment or apparatus used for obtaining geological data.
• Planning and directing activities of workers who are operating equipment to collecting data.
• Setting up or directing setting up of instruments used to collecting geological data.
• Recording readings for compiling data used in prospecting for oil or gas.
• Supervising oil, water, or gas well drilling activities.
• Collecting samples or cuttings, using equipment or hand tools.
• Creating photographic recordings of information, using equipment.
• Measuring geological characteristics used in prospecting for oil or gas, using measuring instruments.