Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments.

Sector: Skilled Trades
Preparation: Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed
O*NET code: 11-9013.00

What you'll actually do

The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems

central to the job — rated 86/100 for importance.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

a major part of the work — rated 81/100 for importance.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

a major part of the work — rated 77/100 for importance.
Scheduling Work and Activities

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
Thinking Creatively

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
Getting Information

a major part of the work — rated 72/100 for importance.

Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.

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

Active Listening

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Critical Thinking

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Reading Comprehension

Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
Speaking

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 66/100 for importance.
Complex Problem Solving

Needed at a solid working level (50/100), and rated 66/100 for importance.

Knowledge

Administration and Management

Needed at a high level (65/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Production and Processing

Needed at a high level (67/100), and rated 73/100 for importance.
Biology

Needed at a high level (64/100), and rated 71/100 for importance.
Mathematics

Needed at a high level (62/100), and rated 66/100 for importance.

Abilities

Deductive Reasoning

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Inductive Reasoning

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Oral Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Oral Expression

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 72/100 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.

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.

Part of the job is other people’s output, not only your own.From “Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others”
You own decisions rather than execute someone else’s.From “Making Decisions and Solving Problems”
You run equipment, and running it well is a skill in itself.From “Controlling Machines and Processes”

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 Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers. 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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