Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

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.

• Placing and studying garments on customers for determining required alterations.
• Sewing garments, using needles and threads or sewing machines.
• Measuring parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and marking or pinning folding alteration lines.
• Taking up or letting down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves.
• Letting out or taking in seams in suits and other garments for improving the fitting.
• Assembling garment parts and joining parts with basting stitches, using needles and threads or sewing machines.
• Removing stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.
• Recording required alterations and instructions on tags, and attaching them to garments.
• Examining tags on garments for determining alterations that are needed.
• Placing, altering, repairing, and making made for measuring clothing, according to customers’ and clothing manufacturers’ specifications and fitting, and applying principles of garment design, construction, and styling.
• Maintaining garment drapes and proportions as alterations are performed.