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.

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.

• Processing, verifying, and maintaining personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.
• Preparing and setting up for new employee orientations.
• Explaining company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants.
• Recording data for each employee, including such information as addresses, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on performance, and dates of and reasons for terminations.
• Processing and reviewing employment applications for evaluating qualifications or eligibility of applicants.
• Answering questions regarding examinations, eligibility, salaries, benefits, and other pertinent information.
• Examining employee files for answering inquiries and providing information for personnel actions.
• Gathering personnel records from other departments or employees.
• Searching employee files for obtaining information for authorized persons and organizations, such as credit bureaus and finance companies.