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Warehouse worker — 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): Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks · Counter and Rental Clerks · Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping · Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators · Postal Service Clerks · Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service · Order Clerks · Machine Feeders and Offbearers
In the official classification#
Stockers and Order Fillers
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 53-7065.00 (Stockers and Order Fillers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- Service OrientationImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingSomewhat important
- Management of Personnel ResourcesSomewhat important
- PersuasionSomewhat important
Knowledge
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- English LanguageImportant
- Public Safety and SecurityImportant
- Production and ProcessingImportant
- Sales and MarketingImportant
- Computers and ElectronicsImportant
Work activities
- Handling and Moving ObjectsVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
- Performing General Physical ActivitiesVery important
- Getting InformationVery important
- Performing for or Working Directly with the PublicVery important
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal RelationshipsVery important
Abilities
- Near VisionVery important
- Oral ComprehensionImportant
- Written ComprehensionImportant
- Manual DexterityImportant
- Static StrengthImportant
- Trunk StrengthImportant
Essential skills
- Active ListeningImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
- WritingImportant
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Inspect products for damage or leaks.New task · 2024-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
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: 3 backed by a verified event, 2 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.