Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

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.

• Removing extra compound after surfaces have been covered sufficiently.
• Spreading sealing compound between boards or panels or over cracks, holes, nail heads, or screw heads, using trowels, broadknives, or spatulas.
• Pressing paper tapes over joints for embedding tape into the sealing compound and for sealing joints.
• Mixing sealing compounds by hand or with portable electric mixers.
• Spreading and smoothing cementing material over tape, using trowels or floating machines for blending joints with wall surfaces.
• Sealing joints between plasterboard or other wallboard to preparing wall surfaces for painting or papering.
• Sanding or patching nicks or cracks in plasterboard or wallboard.
• Using mechanical applicators for spreading compounds and embedding tape in one operation.
• Applying additional coats for filling in holes and smoothing surfaces.
• Installing metal molding at wall corners for securing wallboard.
• Sanding rough spots of dried cement between applications of compounds.