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.

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.

• Declining excessive risks.
• Writing to field representatives, medical personnel, or others for obtaining further information, quote rates, or explaining company underwriting policies.
• Evaluating possibility of losses due to catastrophe or excessive insurance.
• Decrease value of policy when risk is substandard and specifying applicable endorsements or applying rating for ensuring safe, profitable distribution of risks, using reference materials.
• Reviewing company records for determining amount of insurance in force on single risk or group of closely related risks.
• Authorizing reinsurance of policy when risk is high.
• Examining documents for determining degree of risk from factors such as applicant health, financial standing and value, and conditions of property.