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Sample
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Sample Occupations
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| CAREER CLUSTER BRIEF |
DATA PROCESSING AND TYPESETTING |
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CAREER AREA - BUSINESS |
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| Work activities in this group primarily involve setting up, adjusting, and operating data processing, typesetting, linotype, duplicating, addressing, and similar commercial machines. The work is usually specialized and workers spend a majority of their time at their machines, functioning accurately and at high speed. | |
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| Ability and willingness to follow instructions in performing work of a routine, organized nature; attention to detail and good reading comprehension in order to avoid clerical errors; form and spatial perception, eye-hand coordination, and finger and manual dexterity for using machines; and an inclination toward working with machines. | |
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Sample Occupations |
| Data Entry Keyer | Scanner Operator |
| Computer Operator | Platemaker |
| Desktop Publishing Specialist | Job Printer |
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| Typing and Telegraphy | Business Office Skills |
| Audio-Visual Recording and Transmitting | Computer Science and Information Systems |
| Photographic Machine Operation | Graphic Arts |
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