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.

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.

• Answering questions and providing future tax planning to clients.
• Explaining federal and state tax laws to individuals and companies.
• Computing taxes owed or overpaid, using adding machines or personal computers, and completing entries on forms, following tax forms instructions and tax tables.
• Preparing or assisting in preparing simple to complex tax returns for individuals or small businesses.
• Using all appropriate adjustments, deductions, and credits for keeping clients’ taxes to a minimum.
• Interviewing clients for obtaining additional information on taxable income and deductible expenses and allowances.
• Reviewing financial records such as income statements and documentation of expenditures for determining forms needed to preparing tax returns.
• Furnishing taxpayers with sufficient information and advices for ensuring adequate tax forms completion.
• Consulting tax law handbooks or bulletins for determining procedures for preparation of atypical returns.