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Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers

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.

Also Called: Affirmative Action Officer (AA Officer)Civil Rights InvestigatorCivil Rights RepresentativeComplaint Investigations OfficerEqual Employment Opportunity Officer (EEO Officer)Equal Employment Opportunity Representative (EEO Representative)Equal Opportunity Specialist

Resource Details

Abilities

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Written ComprehensionThe ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Oral ComprehensionThe ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Inductive ReasoningThe ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Oral ExpressionThe ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Problem SensitivityThe ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Written ExpressionThe ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Deductive ReasoningThe ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Speech RecognitionThe ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Speech ClarityThe ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Information OrderingThe ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).