Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials
What They Do: Officiate at competitive athletic or sporting events. Detect infractions of rules and decide penalties according to established regulations. Includes all sporting officials, referees, and competition judges.
Also Called: Basketball RefereeDiving JudgeDressage JudgeFootball RefereeHorse Show JudgeMajor League Baseball Umpire (MLB Umpire)RefereeSoccer RefereeSoftball UmpireSports Official
Resource Details
Abilities
| Name | description |
|---|---|
| Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
| Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
| Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| Problem Sensitivity | The 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. |
| Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
| Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
| Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
| Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
| Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
