Education:
32%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
32%
Bachelor's Degree
Tax Preparers
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Job Outlook:
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Education:
High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High:
$96,610.00
Average:
$55,840.00
Hourly
Average:
$26.85
What they do:
Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.
On the job, you would:
- Use all appropriate adjustments, deductions, and credits to keep clients' taxes to a minimum.
- Compute taxes owed or overpaid, using adding machines or personal computers, and complete entries on forms, following tax form instructions and tax tables.
- Interview clients to obtain additional information on taxable income and deductible expenses and allowances.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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98% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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96% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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88% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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84% | 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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78% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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78% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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77% | Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
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74% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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73% | Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
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73% | Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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69% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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68% | 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% | Conventional - Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources. | |
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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 |
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61% | 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. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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75% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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72% | Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |
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72% | Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |
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66% | Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Develop financial plans for clients.
Correspond with customers to answer questions or resolve complaints.
Explain regulations, policies, or procedures.
Schedule appointments.
Calculate tax information.
Calculate tax information.
Calculate tax information.
Interview clients to gather financial information.
Examine financial records.
Advise others on financial matters.
Update professional knowledge.
Calculate tax information.
Verify accuracy of records.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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96% | Spend Time Sitting - How much does this job require sitting? | |
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93% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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89% | Electronic Mail - How often do you use electronic mail in this job? | |
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89% | Telephone - How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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85% | 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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82% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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82% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks - How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? | |
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80% | 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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80% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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78% | 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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77% | 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? | |
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77% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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74% | 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? | |
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73% | Deal With External Customers - How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? | |
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66% | Letters and Memos - How often does the job require written letters and memos? | |
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71% | Duration of Typical Work Week - Number of hours typically worked in one week. | |
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68% | Work Schedules - How regular are the work schedules for this job? |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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97% | Working with Computers - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. | |
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94% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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89% | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. | |
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86% | Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. | |
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80% | Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
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80% | Analyzing Data or Information - Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. | |
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78% | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. | |
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75% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. | |
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69% | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. | |
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67% | Performing Administrative Activities - Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |