Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Home Health Aide field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Home Health Aide majors need many skills, but most especially Service Orientation. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Home Health Aide majors need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Troubleshooting, Operation Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Learning Strategies, Instructing, Active Listening, Time Management, Coordination, Monitoring, Persuasion, Negotiation, Critical Thinking, Speaking, Judgment and Decision Making, Active Learning, Writing, Quality Control Analysis, Operation and Control, Complex Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Management of Material Resources, Management of Personnel Resources, Mathematics, Systems Evaluation, Management of Financial Resources, Systems Analysis, Science, Technology Design, Operations Analysis, Equipment Selection, Installation, Programming, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Home Health Aide majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Service Orientation is very distinctive for majors, but the Service Orientation, Active Listening, Social Perceptiveness, Critical Thinking, Monitoring, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Coordination, Time Management, Writing, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Complex Problem Solving, Persuasion, Negotiation, Management of Personnel Resources, Operation Monitoring, Mathematics, Systems Evaluation, Systems Analysis, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Material Resources, Troubleshooting, Management of Financial Resources, Operation and Control, Science, Technology Design, Operations Analysis, Equipment Selection, Installation, Programming, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.