Clergy

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Job Outlook:
Little or no change
Education: Bachelor's degree
Salary
High: $93,530.00
Average: $60,180.00
Hourly
Average: $28.93

What they do:

Conduct religious worship and perform other spiritual functions associated with beliefs and practices of religious faith or denomination. Provide spiritual and moral guidance and assistance to members.

On the job, you would:

  • Pray and promote spirituality.
  • Prepare and deliver sermons or other talks.
  • Read from sacred texts, such as the Bible, Torah, or Koran.

Personality

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Characteristics of this Career

99% Leadership  -  Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
99% Concern for Others  -  Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
98% Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical.
98% Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
93% Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
92% Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
89% Self-Control  -  Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
86% Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
85% Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
84% Social Orientation  -  Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
84% Stress Tolerance  -  Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
81% Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
80% Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
72% Analytical Thinking  -  Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
68% Innovation  -  Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Strengths

100% Social  -  Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
61% Artistic  -  Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.
61% Enterprising  -  Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Values of the Work Environment

95% Achievement  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
89% Relationships  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
89% Independence  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
72% Recognition  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
67% Working Conditions  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.

Aptitude

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality

97% Speech Clarity  -  The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
94% Oral Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
78% Oral Comprehension  -  The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
75% Written Comprehension  -  The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
75% Inductive Reasoning  -  The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
75% Speech Recognition  -  The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
75% Written Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
75% 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.
75% Deductive Reasoning  -  The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
72% Fluency of Ideas  -  The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
72% Originality  -  The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
69% Information Ordering  -  The 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).
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Skills | Cognitive, Physical, Personality

71% Social Perceptiveness  -  Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
68% Reading Comprehension  -  Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
68% Speaking  -  Talking to others to convey information effectively.
66% Active Listening  -  Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Job Details

Responsibilities
Lead classes or community events.
Lead classes or community events.
Counsel clients or patients regarding personal issues.
Counsel clients or patients regarding personal issues.
Visit individuals in their homes to provide support or information.
Train staff members in social services skills.
Interpret cultural or religious information for others.
Intervene in crisis situations to assist clients.
Develop promotional strategies for religious organizations.
Manage organizational or program finances.
Manage organizational or program finances.
Refer clients to community or social service programs.
Develop educational programs.
Lead classes or community events.
Plan conferences, programs, or special events.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent

96% Electronic Mail  -  How often do you use electronic mail in this job?
93% Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
92% Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
90% Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
88% Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
86% Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals?
85% Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions?
81% Work With Work Group or Team  -  How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job?
80% Coordinate or Lead Others  -  How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job?
78% Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results  -  What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?
76% Spend Time Sitting  -  How much does this job require sitting?
72% Time Pressure  -  How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?
72% Frequency of Decision Making  -  How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?
70% Public Speaking  -  How often do you have to perform public speaking in this job?
69% Responsibility for Outcomes and Results  -  How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers?
69% Deal With External Customers  -  How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job?
69% Letters and Memos  -  How often does the job require written letters and memos?
74% Duration of Typical Work Week  -  Number of hours typically worked in one week.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Tasks & Values

84% Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships  -  Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
83% Assisting and Caring for Others  -  Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
80% Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
76% Developing and Building Teams  -  Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
74% Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates  -  Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
70% Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others  -  Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
69% Making Decisions and Solving Problems  -  Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
69% Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates  -  Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
67% Thinking Creatively  -  Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
65% Developing Objectives and Strategies  -  Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.

What Clergy Do

Clergy / Religious Worker image

Conduct religious worship and perform other spiritual functions associated with beliefs and practices of religious faith or denomination. Provide spiritual and moral guidance and assistance to members.

Work Environment

Not available at this time.

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