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.

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.

• Isolating and maintaining cultures of bacteria or other microorganisms in prescribed or developed media, controlling moisture, aeration, temperature, and nutrition.
• Monitoring and performing tests on water, food, and the environment for detecting harmful microorganisms or for obtaining information about sources of pollution, contamination, or infection.
• Developing new products and procedures for sterilization, food and pharmaceutical supplies preservation, or microbial contamination detection.
• Examining physiological, morphological, and cultural characteristics, using microscope, for identifying and classifying microorganisms in human, water, and food specimens.
• Providing laboratory services for health departments, for community environmental health programs, and for physicians needing information for diagnosis and treatment.
• Observing action of microorganisms upon living tissues of plants, higher animals, and other microorganisms, and on dead organic matter.