Skill Registry

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Personal and Business Property Appraiser — selecting the correct value premise (fair market value, replacement cost, or liquidation value) for the appraisal's intended use, resolving authentication and condition as threshold questions for art/antiques/collectibles, building a comparable-sales adjustment for a unique item, valuing business machinery/equipment via the cost approach, or meeting IRS qualified appraisal requirements for a charitable donation.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a first-line supervisor of personal service workers — deciding whether to convert a stylist or technician between commission, employee, and booth-rent status, reading a rebooking-rate or retail-attach report, building the daily appointment column against call-outs and walk-ins, responding to an expired-license or sanitation gap, or resolving a compensation-structure dispute.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a licensed pest control technician/PCO — diagnosing a pest or wood-destroying-organism (WDO) infestation, calculating a legal termiticide or insecticide application rate, writing a WDO/NPMA-33 inspection report for a real estate transaction, deciding between trench-and-treat vs. rod injection vs. bait, or evaluating a termite retreatment/repair warranty claim.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Pesticide Handler, Sprayer, or Applicator (Vegetation) — calibrating a boom or backpack sprayer for a right-of-way or roadside herbicide job, choosing herbicide mode-of-action and buffer zones near water or sensitive crops, setting REI and re-entry timing under the Worker Protection Standard, diagnosing a drift or non-target-damage complaint, or reviewing a vegetation-management spray plan for label and safety compliance.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Petroleum Engineer — fitting and correcting a decline curve to estimate EUR and book reserves, running a material balance check against a volumetric OOIP/OGIP estimate, sizing a well's producing rate with nodal analysis (IPR x VLP intersection), checking a casing or tubing string's burst/collapse design factor against a load case, evaluating a waterflood's voidage replacement ratio, or classifying reserves under SPE-PRMS/SEC categories for a reserves report.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a licensed Pharmacist — checking a drug-interaction or contraindication before dispensing, verifying a dose against renal/hepatic-adjusted ranges, evaluating a therapeutic-substitution or formulary swap, reconciling medications at a care transition, or drafting a pharmacist-intervention note to a prescriber.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Pharmacy Aide — triaging a phone call or counter question into "answer it" vs "route to the pharmacist," receiving and reconciling a wholesaler delivery that includes controlled substances, logging a vaccine refrigerator temperature check, spotting a recurring shrink or cash-drawer discrepancy, or deciding what a clerical-support role can and can't touch in a given state.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Pharmacy Technician — verifying a new prescription before data entry, triaging an insurance claim rejection code, reconciling days'-supply math after a dose change, deciding a compounding beyond-use date, or catching a look-alike/sound-alike or high-alert medication error before pharmacist final check.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Philosophy and Religion Professor (Postsecondary) — backward-designing a comparative-religion or ethics syllabus, responding to a bias or proselytizing complaint under academic-freedom and Establishment Clause norms, grading a philosophy paper's argument reconstruction, or deciding whether to keep competing for a scarce tenure-track opening versus pivot off the market.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a phlebotomist — sequencing a multi-tube blood draw in the correct order, deciding whether a specimen meets rejection criteria, working through positive-patient-identification and mislabeling-prevention steps, or judging when a difficult venipuncture needs escalation instead of another attempt.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a professional photographer — planning exposure/lighting for a shoot, building a shot list with coverage for an irreplaceable event, structuring a usage-licensing fee for commercial images, diagnosing a lighting or exposure problem from EXIF/histogram data, or setting up a non-destructive post-processing workflow.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an accountant/financial controller — closing the books, ensuring GAAP-compliant reporting, designing internal controls, reviewing an accounting treatment question, or catching a discrepancy in financial records. Distinct from a financial analyst role — this one is accountable for the accuracy of what happened, not for forecasting what will happen.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a professional Actor — breaking down sides for a self-tape audition, preparing a character choice for rehearsal, deciding between two conflicting bookings, reading a contract offer for scale vs. scale-plus terms, or diagnosing why callbacks aren't converting to bookings.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Actuary — estimating unpaid claim reserves with chain-ladder or Bornhuetter-Ferguson methods, building or reviewing a rate indication from loss experience, applying credibility weighting to thin or volatile data, drafting a statement of actuarial opinion, or diagnosing whether a reserve or pricing assumption has stopped matching reality.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a licensed acupuncturist — building a TCM pattern-differentiation-based treatment plan, choosing point combinations and needling technique for a presenting complaint, triaging a safety red flag (fainting, suspected pneumothorax, herb-drug interaction), or writing a SOAP note that justifies medical necessity for insurance. US scope-of-practice default (NCCAOM/state licensure). A reasoning aid, not medical advice.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Adhesive Bonding Machine Operator — distinguishing an open-time violation from a pot-life check, controlling bond line thickness with calibrated spacers rather than clamping pressure alone, verifying surface prep with a test rather than visual cleanliness, or confirming actual part temperature reached full cure rather than trusting chamber setpoint and elapsed time.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Administrative Law Judge, Adjudicator, or Hearing Officer — applying a mandatory sequential/structured evaluation framework in required order, weighing conflicting medical or vocational opinion evidence using specific regulatory factors, writing findings that explicitly address significant contrary evidence in the record, drafting a credibility/consistency finding tied to specific record citations, or checking whether a draft decision would survive substantial-evidence review.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Administrative Services Manager — running the operational/facilities/office-services backbone of an organization, evaluating a vendor contract, allocating a facilities/admin budget, or diagnosing why internal operational support is failing a growing organization.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Adult ESL/Basic Education Instructor — placing a new adult learner using standardized assessment scores, designing life-context-relevant lesson content for working adults, tracking NRS-reportable level gains, addressing attendance/retention barriers, or preparing a learner for GED/HSE or workplace English benchmarks.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Advertising and Promotions Manager — planning a paid media campaign, briefing and evaluating creative, negotiating with agencies/media vendors, or deciding how to allocate a promotions budget across formats and timing. Narrower than the marketing-strategist role — this one owns campaign execution and media buying, not overall brand positioning.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Aerospace Engineer — reconciling a vehicle mass/weight budget against a certification limit, computing a structural margin of safety, choosing a means of compliance for an FAA certification basis, tracing a weight-growth overrun back to a design decision, or evaluating a propulsion/aerodynamics tradeoff against a range or payload requirement.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologist/Technician — verifying an installed fastener's preload against a drawing's torque callout via the T=K·D·F relationship, reducing strain-gauge data from a structural proof-load test into stress and checking it against an FEA-predicted margin, selecting and executing an NDI method against a defect type and material, reducing a wind-tunnel test point's dynamic-pressure and Reynolds-number data, or ballooning and dispositioning an AS9102 first article inspection. Distinct from an aerospace-engineer (owns the design, structural analysis, and certification basis) — this role builds, instruments, tests, and inspects the hardware the engineer specified, closing the loop with measurement rather than deriving a new analysis.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an agricultural engineer — sizing a center-pivot or drip irrigation system's peak capacity against crop water demand, computing lateral grain-bin wall pressure with Janssen's equation, sizing a waterway or tile-drainage system with Manning's equation and an NRCS design-storm return period, or building a manure/nutrient first-year availability mass balance against a crop's N requirement.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an Agricultural Equipment Operator — calibrating planter seed population and singulation, diagnosing combine header or separator loss, sequencing planting or harvest across fields under a weather-constrained window, sizing machinery capacity in acres/hour against a season's acreage, or evaluating PTO/grain-bin entrapment safety on a job site.