Education:
74%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
13%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)
Couriers & Messengers
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High:
$46,800.00
Average:
$36,250.00
Hourly
Average:
$17.43
What they do:
Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.
On the job, you would:
- Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
- Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
- Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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92% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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89% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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85% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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71% | Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. | |
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69% | Self-Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. | |
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67% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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67% | Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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100% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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66% | Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |
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66% | Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Deliver items.
Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
Load materials or equipment.
Unload materials or equipment.
Relay information between personnel.
Analyze shipping information to make routing decisions.
Deliver items.
Sort mail.
Obtain written authorization to perform activities.
Record shipping information.
Confer with coworkers to coordinate work activities.
Maintain mechanical equipment.
Provide notifications to customers or patrons.
Sort mail.
Distribute incoming mail.
Operate office equipment.
File documents or records.
Prepare outgoing mail.
Load materials or equipment.
Unload materials or equipment.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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99% | Telephone - How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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95% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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93% | Face-to-Face Discussions - How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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93% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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92% | 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? | |
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86% | Electronic Mail - How often do you use electronic mail in this job? | |
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81% | Spend Time Sitting - How much does this job require sitting? | |
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79% | 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? | |
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78% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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78% | Work With Work Group or Team - How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? | |
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77% | In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment - How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or equipment (e.g., car)? | |
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73% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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73% | Exposed to Disease or Infections - How often does this job require exposure to disease/infections? | |
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70% | Exposed to Contaminants - How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? | |
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68% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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66% | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather - How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? | |
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66% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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79% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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75% | Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
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75% | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment - Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. | |
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66% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. | |
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65% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |