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Census · Marketing · occupation code 27-3042

Technical Writers

Every task in this role, whether it passes the census's structural hand-over screen, which models pass it, and why. It is a screen, not a claim about what AI can do: a task can pass and still be beyond the systems of the day. The stricter and looser rules re-vote every task, and small differences between roles are noise.

Passes the screen · 1 of 15 tasks

  • Maintain records and files of work and revisions.

    quick to check, an existing check settles it, and a mistake is cheap · 10.4% of the role's time · $435M · all three pass it

Does not pass

  • Organize material and complete writing assignment according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 15.4% of the role's time · $646M · waiting on a check

  • Edit, standardize, or make changes to material prepared by other writers or establishment personnel.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 8.7% of the role's time · $364M · waiting on a check

  • Select photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 7.6% of the role's time · $318M · waiting on a check

  • Develop or maintain online help documentation.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 6.8% of the role's time · $282M

  • Assist in laying out material for publication.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 6.7% of the role's time · $280M · waiting on a check

  • Interview production and engineering personnel and read journals and other material to become familiar with product technologies and production methods.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 6.7% of the role's time · $278M

  • Study drawings, specifications, mockups, and product samples to integrate and delineate technology, operating procedure, and production sequence and detail.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.6% of the role's time · $236M

  • Observe production, developmental, and experimental activities to determine operating procedure and detail.

    physical work, outside the screen · 5.4% of the role's time · $224M

  • Analyze developments in specific field to determine need for revisions in previously published materials and development of new material.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.2% of the role's time · $217M

  • Review published materials and recommend revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of reproduction and binding.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.1% of the role's time · $214M · waiting on a check

  • Review manufacturer's and trade catalogs, drawings and other data relative to operation, maintenance, and service of equipment.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 4.9% of the role's time · $204M

  • Arrange for typing, duplication, and distribution of material.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked · 4.7% of the role's time · $195M · passed by Claude Sonnet · the models disagreed

  • Draw sketches to illustrate specified materials or assembly sequence.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 3.8% of the role's time · $158M · waiting on a check

  • Confer with customer representatives, vendors, plant executives, or publisher to establish technical specifications and to determine subject material to be developed for publication.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 3.0% of the role's time · $127M

Where this role works