Occupation Atlasprobation officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6a7212c9-40da-4346-a190-3896bdd9a925
probation officer
Probation officers supervise offenders after their release, or who were sentenced to penalties outside of incarceration. They write reports providing advice on the offender's sentence and analysis concerning possibilities of reoffense. They aid the offenders during the rehabilitation and reintegration process and ensure the offenders carry out their community service sentence when necessary.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SCESocial · Conventional · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.56
- C Conventional4.18
- E Enterprising3.92
- I Investigative3.44
- R Realistic2.35
- A Artistic2.15
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists (21-1092.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (11)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advise on legal decisions
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- assess offenders' risk behaviour
- develop documentation in accordance with legal requirements
- enable access to services
- ensure sentence execution
- identify available services
- maintain relationship with suppliers
- mentor individuals
- perform risk analysis
- reinforce positive behaviour
Optional (18)
- advise on conflict management
- analyse legal evidence
- compile legal documents
- court procedures
- criminal law
- criminology
- document evidence
- forensic psychiatry
- identify security threats
- interview people
- law enforcement
- legal research
- oversee rehabilitation process
- present evidence
- provide social counselling
- provide testimony in court hearings
- psychological counselling methods
- write situation reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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