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Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
Plan, direct, or coordinate academic or nonacademic activities of preschools or childcare centers and programs, including before- and after-school care.
- Sector: Education
- Preparation: Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed
- O*NET code: 11-9031.00
What you'll actually do
The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.
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Training and Teaching Others
a major part of the work — rated 84/100 for importance.
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
a major part of the work — rated 83/100 for importance.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
a major part of the work — rated 83/100 for importance.
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Assisting and Caring for Others
a major part of the work — rated 82/100 for importance.
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Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
a major part of the work — rated 81/100 for importance.
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Communicating with People Outside the Organization
a major part of the work — rated 79/100 for importance.
Plan, direct, or coordinate academic or nonacademic activities of preschools or childcare centers and programs, including before- and after-school care.
What it takes
Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.
Skills
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Monitoring
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Reading Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Coordination
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Critical Thinking
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at expert level (84/100), and rated 87/100 for importance.
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Education and Training
Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 82/100 for importance.
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Administration and Management
Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 77/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Written Expression
Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
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Oral Expression
Needed at a high level (63/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Deductive Reasoning
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
A four-year bachelor's degree is the usual entry ticket.
Experience
Two to four years of related work, internships or research on top of the degree.
Training
Most of the learning happens before you are hired, not after.
What it pays
These are typical education compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Top University Admin
$90k – $180k
Public School Districts
$55k – $85k
Charter & Private Schools
$45k – $75k
How the work tends to run
Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.
- You are in front of the public, so the job is partly performance.From “Performing for or Working Directly with the Public”
- Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
- Part of the job is other people’s output, not only your own.From “Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others”
- Rules and standards are checkable and someone checks them.From “Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards”
- People depend on you directly, and that is the point of the role.From “Assisting and Caring for Others”
How FlightWay scores your fit against this
No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.
- 1. You answer a short quiz
- Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
- 2. We correlate the two profiles
- Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
- 3. The number you see is personality fit only
- "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
- 4. Every factor is visible
- You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.
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See your fit for Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
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