Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

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.

• Studying animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry.
• Inventorying or estimating plants and wildlife populations.
• Analyzing characteristics of animals for identifying and classifying them.
• Making recommendations on management systems and planning for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large for exploring options.
• Disseminating information by writing reports and scientific papers or journal articles, and by making presentations and giving talks for schools, clubs, interest groups and interpretive programs.
• Organizing and conducting experimental studies with live animals in controlled or natural surroundings.
• Preparing collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and for studying the development or disease.