Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

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.

• Writing up or orally communicating researching findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public.
• Conducting researches concerning animal nutrition, breeding, or management for improving products or processes.
• Studying nutritional requirements of animals and nutritive values of animal feeding materials.
• Studying effects of management practices, processing methods, feeding, or environmental conditions on quality and quantity of animal products, such as eggs and milk.
• Developing improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease controlling of animals.
• Researching and controlling animal selection and breeding practices for increasing production efficiency and improving animal quality.
• Determining genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, using principles of genetics.