Equal Opportunity Representatives & Officers

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Affirmative Action Officer (AA Officer), Civil Rights Investigator, Equal Employment Opportunity Officer (EEO Officer), Equal Opportunity Specialist

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Aircraft Armament Systems; Aircraft Armament Systems Apprentice, B-52/B-2; Aircraft Armament Systems Craftsman; Aircraft Armament Systems Helper, F-15; Aircraft Armament Systems Journeyman; Equal Opportunity Manager; Force Support, Bomber; Force Support, RPA; Munitions Systems; Special Reconnaissance
Cannon Crewmember; Human Resources Officer; Joint Fire Support Specialist; Senior Human Resources Officer
Human Resource Management
Career Planner; Equal Opportunity Advisor (EOA)
Command Climate Specialist; EO Advisor; Equal Opportunity Program Officer; Fire Controlman; Fire Controlman (AEGIS); RL - Human Resources; URL - Surface Warfare
Equal Opportunity; Equal Opportunity Craftsman; Equal Opportunity Helper; Equal Opportunity Journeyman; Equal Opportunity Manager; Equal Opportunity Superintendent
What they do:
Monitor and evaluate compliance with equal opportunity laws, guidelines, and policies to ensure that employment practices and contracting arrangements give equal opportunity without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.
On the job, you would:
  • Investigate employment practices or alleged violations of laws to document and correct discriminatory factors.
  • Prepare reports related to investigations of equal opportunity complaints.
  • Interview persons involved in equal opportunity complaints to verify case information.

Knowledge

Safety and Government

  • law and government

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • human resources (HR)
  • customer service

Math and Science

  • sociology and anthropology

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
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen

Visual Understanding

  • see hidden patterns
  • quickly know what you are looking at

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Dependability
  • Self Control
  • Stress Tolerance

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Spreadsheet software

  • IBM Lotus 1-2-3
  • Microsoft Excel Hot Technology In Demand

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology

Human resources software

  • Bashen LinkLine
  • Yocum & McKee The Complete AAP

Education

bachelor's degree or
some college
usually needed

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Job Outlook

Bright
New job opportunities are very likely in the future.

Salary:

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