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    Accounting Clerk
    You record the company's financial transactions in ledgers and are responsible for the accuracy, completeness and consistency of the financial records.

    Administrative Assistant
    You plan, direct and coordinate support services for your organization. You may keep records, distribute mail and answer the telephone among other support services. You may also oversee facilities planning and maintenance.

    Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineer
    You perform a variety of engineering work in designing, constructing, and testing aircraft, missiles or spacecraft. You may evaluate the materials and equipment used in craft design and manufacture and recommend improvements in testing equipment.

    Biological/Life Scientist
    You design and perform experiments and analyze data relating to the study of living organisms. You also prepare the data for presentation or publication. Your actual job title might be taken from the organism you study.

    CIO/Manager of Information Systems
    You are responsible for software development, maintenance and enhancement, product QA and testing, while managing the strategic planning and implementation of new technologies. You budget and oversee development of all new tech projects.

    Client/Server/GUI Systems Developer
    You analyze and design client/server programming applications. You have a working knowledge of various OSes, including ODBC, Windows NT, Macintosh, NOVELL, OS/2, Windows 95, UNIX, APIs and RPCs.

    Computer Course Instructor – Systems
    You're a hot commodity right now as you train future systems workers in such subjects as UNIX and object-oriented analysis. You may be preparing them for one of the OS certificates.

    Corporate Attorney
    You provide legal counsel for your company by drafting and negotiating licenses and contracts. You may specialize in a certain field of law within your company - such as employment discrimination, product liability or environmental law.

    Customer Support Representative
    No question is a stupid question, right? You assist customers and sales staff with non-technical questions regarding company products.

    Data Communications Analyst
    You install, maintain and troubleshoot data networks. You assist users with connectivity problems, analyze data flow, and configure modems, DSUs, multiplexers and routers.

    Database Administrator
    You develop storage and retrieval systems for your organization's raw data. You make general database performance improvements, ensure data integrity, recover corrupted data and eliminate superfluous data.

    Designer/Multimedia Specialist
    First you suggest a format and platform (i.e., print, online, video) for presenting information. Next, you create the "look and feel" and design the layout and sequence of pages or screens. You then proof, test, edit and refine the work.

    Electrical Engineer
    You develop, test, analyze, integrate and maintain electrical systems in a variety of fields - including missile design, analog and digital systems, power and lighting, communications systems, signal processing or electromagnetics.

    Engineering Technician
    You test product quality, monitor procedures and may also help sales reps by advising buyers on equipment concerns. You provide technical support for all phases of manufacturing – including fermentation processes and purification activities.

    General, Audit or Cost Accountant
    You prepare schedules, exhibits and summaries on financial conditions. You may review accounting procedures and documents for accuracy. At the more advanced levels, you interpret financial trends and predict the effects of change in operating procedures.

    HR Staffer/Recruiter
    You plan, direct and coordinate the human resource activities of an organization and maintain employee compensation programs, recruitment, personnel policies and training initiatives.

    Lab Technician
    You assist the engineers and scientists in research and development by setting up experiments and calculating and recording results.

    LAN Administrator
    You install and maintain local area network hardware and software. You troubleshoot network usage, install new users, perform systems backups and data recovery, resolve LAN communications problems, and monitor security.

    Legal Staffer
    You prepare legal papers and correspondence and submit articles to company officials. You conduct legal research and are familiar with legal terminology, procedures and documents.

    Mainframe Systems Developer
    You code and maintain mainframe operating systems, communications and database management software, compilers, and utility programs. You develop and support large-scale batch or high-volume transaction environments.

    Marketing Staffer
    You bring the world's attention to your place of business. You may perform market research, create campaign strategies and develop electronic sales and marketing tools.

    Mechanical Engineer
    You concentrate on the design, manufacture, installation, operation and maintenance of tools, engines, machines and other mechanical equipment.

    Midrange Systems Developer
    You develop and support enterprise-oriented applications or general business applications.

    Network Analyst/Specialist
    You make sure that your company information channels flow freely and are hacker-proof. You connect users to the system and assess the ability of the current system to meet future network needs. You also reroute communications to avert network failures.

    Office Manager
    You keep the office running smoothly using your organizational talents. Having general administrative skills, you may keep books, telephone logs and personnel records and coordinate purchasing for your office.

    Principal
    You are one of the business partners running the place. You take an equal share of the leadership, responsibility, and praise.

    Programmer/Analyst
    Fundamentally, you design and update the software that runs the computer. You sit in design meetings to help determine the best approach to a problem; then you code it, test it, debug it, and make sure it's compatible with previous software versions.

    Project Engineer
    You oversee all engineering phases of a project and have at least superficial knowledge of multiple engineering disciplines. You streamline the engineering processes and keep all the engineers focussed on the same project goals.

    Public Relations/Media Staffer
    You develop and implement creative publicity strategies for new products and existing customer solutions. In addition, you may write press releases, maintain media contact databases and coordinate media relations.

    Purchasing Agent/Buyer
    You select and recommend suppliers, maintain the contracts, and manage the material acquisition process. You may also determine the feasibility of purchasing products, while keeping up to date on pricing trends and manufacturing processes.

    Quality Assurance Analyst
    You test company products to ensure compliance with quality requirements. You ensure that development processes and procedures are in place and are followed.

    Sales Account Representative
    You identify and contact sales prospects, analyze customers' needs, propose business solutions and negotiate sales.

    Software Engineer
    You look at the problem or market need and design software to address it – maybe performing cost/benefit ratios. Then you write the code to make it happen and test every feature in a beta release. You refine it and then send it out the door.

    Systems Administrator
    You assess the benefits of an upgrade, and then you schedule and install OS, database management software, compilers and utility programs. You also might install new users, create batch administration scripts and run system backups.

    Systems Engineer
    You are responsible for the design, development and implementation of computer software using C/C++ and other low-level OS software. You develop GUI-based applications, systems software and embedded software.

    Systems Operator/Analyst
    You maintain the hardware, update manuals, monitor system performance, handle security issues, document problems and determine solutions. You may also start up and shut down the system and set up and maintain accounts for your coworkers.

    Technical Support
    Computer novices are your demographic. You work with users/customers to identify problems and then walk them through the solutions. Since you are in close contact with the customers, you are often consulted on internal projects to improve products.

    Technical Writer/Editor
    You write updates and revise existing technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, and operating and maintenance instructions. You may also oversee preparation of illustrations, photographs, diagrams and charts, as well as assist in layout work.

    Vice President
    You're the (or one of the) president's main advisor(s)! You assist in carrying out executive orders and may oversee specific aspects of the business.

    WAN Administrator
    You evaluate, select, install, maintain and analyze wide area networks. You get your hands on the hardware – routers, hubs and multiplexers – and know all about WAN routing protocols.

    Web Programmer
    You are responsible for isolating, diagnosing and patching scripts and server functions. You understand source code control and methods of documenting code changes.

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