Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Parts, Warehousing, & Inventory Management Operations field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Parts, Warehousing, & Inventory Management Operations majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Parts, Warehousing, & Inventory Management Operations majors need more than the average amount of Time Management, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Management of Material Resources, Monitoring, Persuasion, Negotiation, Critical Thinking, Speaking, Service Orientation, Management of Financial Resources, Coordination, Systems Analysis, Writing, Judgment and Decision Making, Social Perceptiveness, Complex Problem Solving, Mathematics, Learning Strategies, Management of Personnel Resources, Active Learning, Quality Control Analysis, Operations Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Programming, Instructing, Systems Evaluation, Operation and Control, Technology Design, Troubleshooting, Equipment Selection, Science, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Parts, Warehousing, & Inventory Management Operations majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Time Management is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Speaking, Monitoring, Time Management, Writing, Coordination, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Persuasion, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation, Negotiation, Systems Analysis, Active Learning, Mathematics, Learning Strategies, Management of Personnel Resources, Instructing, Systems Evaluation, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Financial Resources, Operation Monitoring, Operations Analysis, Operation and Control, Troubleshooting, Technology Design, Programming, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.