Customs Brokers
Corporate Licensed Broker, Customs Broker
- Prepare and process import and export documentation according to customs regulations, laws, or procedures.
- Clear goods through customs and to their destinations for clients.
- Pay, or arrange for payment of, taxes and duties on shipments.
Knowledge
Transportation
- movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road
Arts and Humanities
- English language
Business
- administrative services
- customer service
Safety and Government
- law and government
Skills
Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilities
Verbal
- read and understand what is written
- communicate by speaking
Ideas and Logic
- use rules to solve problems
- order or arrange things
Personality
People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
- Persistence
- Cooperation
Technology
You might use software like this on the job:
Data base user interface and query software
- Automated commercial environment software ACE
- Microsoft Access
Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
Electronic mail software
- Electronic data interchange EDI software
- Microsoft Outlook
Education
certificate after high school
usually needed
Job Outlook
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