Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Foods, Nutrition, & Related Services field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Foods, Nutrition, & Related Services majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Foods, Nutrition, & Related Services majors need more than the average amount of Quality Control Analysis, Management of Material Resources, Systems Evaluation, Technology Design, Learning Strategies, Mathematics, Service Orientation, Troubleshooting, Systems Analysis, Monitoring, Instructing, Speaking, Active Listening, Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Coordination, Management of Personnel Resources, Reading Comprehension, Persuasion, Operations Analysis, Social Perceptiveness, Management of Financial Resources, Judgment and Decision Making, Programming, Time Management, Writing, Operation Monitoring, Complex Problem Solving, Negotiation, Science, Operation and Control, Equipment Selection, Equipment Maintenance, Installation, 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 Foods, Nutrition, & Related 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 Quality Control Analysis is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Learning Strategies, Instructing, Critical Thinking, Active Learning, Writing, Monitoring, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Social Perceptiveness, Systems Evaluation, Time Management, Systems Analysis, Coordination, Service Orientation, Persuasion, Mathematics, Management of Personnel Resources, Negotiation, Operations Analysis, Science, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Financial Resources, Operation Monitoring, Technology Design, Programming, Troubleshooting, Operation and Control, Equipment Selection, Equipment Maintenance, Installation, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.