- Industrie: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who visits agents, tie line customers, and private wire patrons to demonstrate to employees use and operation of telegraph equipment and facilities. Respnsibilities include:
* Demonstrates use of telegraph equipment and operating procedures.
* Explains rates and company services.
* Consults with customers concerning communication needs and suggests methods of eliminating operational difficulties.
* Suggests modifications of customer's private wire switching equipment.
* Prepares written reports of services rendered to customers, including descriptions of difficulties encountered.
* Aids in development and preparation of operating procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates telegraph key, Teletype machine, or talks over telephone to transmit and receive train orders and messages. Respnsibilities include:
* Records time and date messages were received or transmitted.
* Operates Teletype machine to transmit messages and train orders.
* Reads messages received and marks for distribution.
* Informs train dispatcher by telephone of departure of outbound trains from yard or terminal.
* Replaces rolls of Teletype paper in machine as required.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transmits and receives messages, train orders, and car reports in Morse code, using manual or semiautomatic key. Respnsibilities include:
* In small railroad station performs duties, such as selling tickets and forwarding and receiving baggage and freight.
* May move controls to change block signals and semaphores.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transmits and receives messages, train orders, and car reports in Morse code, using manual or semiautomatic key. Respnsibilities include:
* In small railroad station performs duties, such as selling tickets and forwarding and receiving baggage and freight.
* May move controls to change block signals and semaphores.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in giving bus service information, by telephone, to callers for motor transportation company. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with management and examines past activity records to project staffing, budget, and equipment requirements, performing duties as described under supervisor master title.
* Issues oral and written instructions on schedule changes and rates to keep workers informed and maintain accuracy of information given to public.
* Monitors telephone conversations between workers and callers to evaluate technical accuracy.
* Reads telephone operator's meter to determine volume of calls handled and hourly total of lost calls to compile record for planning purposes.
* Conducts classroom and on-the-job training to maintain and improve service standards.
* Submits reports, as required, to provide information for accounting department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in greeting and welcoming motorists at State Highway Information Center. Respnsibilities include:
* Provides information, such as directions, road conditions, and vehicular travel regulations.
* Provides maps, brochures, and pamphlets to assist motorist in locating points of interest or in reaching destination.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May direct tourists to rest areas, camps, resorts, historical points, or other tourist attractions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides telephone inquirers with information concerning activities and programs of automobile club. Respnsibilities include:
* Provides information on matters, such as traffic engineering and motor-vehicle safety, applicable motor vehicle laws, licensing regulations, automobile insurance and financing, and legal actions.
* Receives and records complaints on road conditions.
* Participates in traffic surveys.
* May specialize in assisting members file insurance claims for motor vehicle property damage and be designated Claims And Insurance Information Clerk, Automobile Club.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who schedules appointments with employer or other employees for clients or customers by mail, phone, or in person, and records time and date of appointment in appointment book.
* Indicates in appointment book when appointments have been filled or cancelled.
* May telephone or write clients to remind them of appointments.
* May receive payments for services, and record them in ledger.
* May receive callers.
* May operate switchboard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives callers at establishment, determines nature of business, and directs callers to destination. Respnsibilities include:
* Obtains caller's name and arranges for appointment with person called upon.
* Directs caller to destination and records name, time of call, nature of business, and person called upon.
* May operate PBX telephone console to receive incoming messages.
* May type memos, correspondence, reports, and other documents.
* May work in office of medical practitioner or in other health care facility and be designated Outpatient Receptionist or Receptionist, Doctor's Office.
* May issue visitor's pass when required.
* May make future appointments and answer inquiries.
* May perform variety of clerical duties and other duties pertinent to type of establishment.
* May collect and distribute mail and messages.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles credit information, such as status of credit accounts, personal references, and bank accounts to fulfill subscribers' requests, using telephone.
* Copies information onto form to update information for credit record on file, or for computer input.
* Telephones subscriber to relay requested information or submits data obtained for typewritten report to subscriber.
Industry:Professional careers
