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.

• Conferring with scientists, engineers, regulators, or others for planning or reviewing projects or for providing technical assistance.
• Developing client relationships and communicating with clients for explaining proposals, presenting researching findings, establishing specifications, or discussing project status.
• Planning or directing researching, development, or production activities.
• Preparing project proposals.
• Designing or coordinating successive phases of problem analysis, solution proposals, or testing.
• Reviewing project activities and preparing and reviewing researching, testing, or operational reports.
• Hiring, supervising, or evaluating engineers, technicians, researchers, or other staff.
• Determining scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management and making detailed plans to accomplish these goals.
• Developing or implementing policies, standards, or procedures for the architectural, scientific, or technical working performed for ensuring regulatory compliance or operations enhancement.