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| Account Executive | Advise management concerning the effect of business transactions on taxes, and may devise and install tax-record system. |
| Actuarial Analyst | Use sophisticated probability and statistical measures to determine the level of premiums policyholders should pay an insurance company. |
| Actuarial Technician | Interpret statistics to determine probabilities of accidents, sickness, death, and loss of property from theft and natural disasters. |
| Applied Mathematician | Use theories and techniques of mathematics to solve practical problems in business, engineering, and sciences. |
| Computer-Aided Designer | Use computers to control systems to assist industrial designers and engineers in designing and carry out automated industrial processes. |
| Computer Programmer | Program computers to implement problem-solving strategies designed by systems analysts. |
| Computer Scientist | Conduct research, design computers, and use principles of applying computers. |
| Computer Technician | Install, program, operate, maintain, and service computer systems. |
| Controller | Use principles from economics and finance to direct the preparation of financial reports. |
| Design Engineers | Write specifications and give advice on construction and manufacturing processes and establish minimum acceptable standards of performance for new products. |
| Digital Compositor | Operate the equipment that encodes and decodes coordinate data for the transfer of images (such as maps and drawings) from one medium to another. |
| Economist | Compile and interpret statistical data regarding the production and distribution of goods and services. |
| Electronics Technicians | Make suggestions for improvements in design of the device, adjusting, or modifying if as required to produce a practical operation capability. |
| Environmental Engineer | Use mathematical models to predict the consequences of new human developments, implementation of new military policy, construction of new machinery on the environment. |
| Financial Analyst | Analyze from a statistical standpoint information concerning the investment programs of public, industrial, and financial institutions. |
| Information Systems Specialist | Plan, schedule, and coordinate the activities required to process data on electronic computer systems. |
| Insurance Underwriter | Assess and analyze the risks inherent in insuring potential policyholders before making recommendations to the insurance companies that employ them. |
| Market Research Analyst | Collect and evaluate data to make recommendations to business concerning trends in consumer purchasing. |
| Math Analyst | Assist scientists in projects that demand advanced knowledge in mathematics. |
| Mathematical Consultant | Assist scientist in projects that demand advanced knowledge in mathematics. |
| MIS Programmer | Design systems for collecting, organizing, interpreting, classifying, and retrieving information. |
| MIS – Technical Staff | Install, program, maintain, and repair computer systems. |
| Operations Analyst | Adapt new technologies and create new ways to use machines like computers, lasers , and a host of other complex technologies that will make personal financial matters easier. |
| Programmer | Write and code instruction that control the work of a computer. |
| Programmer Support Specialist | Help programmers and computer users in everyday operations, mainly by handling computer problems that depend on programming. |
| Quality Control Technicians | Help ensure the quality of the electronics product. |
| Software Engineer | Develop new technology by using mathematical models to help design systems. Research, design, or develop and maintain software systems along with hardware development for medical, scientific, and industrial purposes. |
| Statistical Analysts | Tabulate, analyze, and interpret
the numerical results of experiments and surveys. |
| Statistician | Perform surveys, collect large amounts of data, and interpret the results. |
| Systems Analyst | Plan and develop new computer systems or devise ways to apply existing systems to processes still completed manually or by some less effective method. Devise ways of using the computer equipment, do planning, scheduling, and coordinate of activities required to develop methods of data processes. |
| Systems Engineer | Develop or alter computer systems to solve specific problems. |
| Technical Writer | Compile, write, and edit a wide variety of technical information such as instruction manuals, advertising material, textbooks, and scientific journals. |
| Theoretical Mathematian | Seek to develop new principles and new relationships between existing mathematical principals. |