Couriers & Messengers
Also called:
Courier, Messenger, Driver, Laboratory Courier
see titles from the Air Force.
Defense Attache
What they do:
Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.
On the job, you would:
- Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances in order to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
- Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
- Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
Transportation
- movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road
Business
Arts and Humanities
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Verbal
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
Hand and Finger Use
- hold or move items with your hands
- keep your arm or hand steady
Controlled Movement
- use your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down
- quickly change the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat
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People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Independence
- Concern for Others
- Integrity
- Self Control
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Examples of the technology used in this career will be available soon.
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high school diploma or some high school usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$25,440
per year, on average
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