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Electrician — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Lighting Technicians · Helpers--Electricians · Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters · Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers · Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers · Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment · Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers · Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
In the official classification#
Electricians
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 3: medium preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 47-2111.00 (Electricians). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- TroubleshootingVery important
- RepairingVery important
- InstallationImportant
- Quality Control AnalysisImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- Operations MonitoringImportant
Knowledge
- Building and ConstructionVery important
- Administration and ManagementVery important
- MechanicalImportant
- MathematicsImportant
- DesignImportant
- Customer and Personal ServiceImportant
Work activities
- Performing General Physical ActivitiesExtremely important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesExtremely important
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing WorkExtremely important
- Getting InformationVery important
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or SurroundingsVery important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
Abilities
- Problem SensitivityVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Inductive ReasoningVery important
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Information OrderingVery important
Essential skills
- Active ListeningImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
- Active LearningImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 1 backed by a verified event, 4 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.