Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Personal & Culinary Services field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Personal & Culinary Services majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Personal & Culinary Services majors need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Negotiation, Active Listening, Persuasion, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking, Coordination, Monitoring, Critical Thinking, Quality Control Analysis, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Time Management, Judgment and Decision Making, Writing, Reading Comprehension, Technology Design, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Management of Personnel Resources, Instructing, Mathematics, Operation Monitoring, Learning Strategies, Operation and Control, Troubleshooting, Management of Material Resources, Science, Programming, Equipment Selection, Management of Financial Resources, Operations Analysis, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Personal & Culinary Services majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Service Orientation is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Speaking, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Service Orientation, Monitoring, Writing, Social Perceptiveness, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Coordination, Persuasion, Time Management, Negotiation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Mathematics, Management of Personnel Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Science, Management of Material Resources, Operations Analysis, Operation and Control, Management of Financial Resources, Troubleshooting, Technology Design, Programming, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.