Occupation Atlasscientific laboratory technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4fef1907-cf82-413b-841a-02ef57e299a6
scientific laboratory technician
Scientific laboratory technicians carry out laboratory-based research, analysis and testing and support life science professionals. They sample, test, measure, research and analyse in areas such as biology, biotechnology, environmental science, forensic science and pharmacology. Scientific laboratory technicians also observe and monitor laboratory activities, record test sequences and analyse the results.
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Job Zone
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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
IRCInvestigative · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative6.15
- R Realistic5.81
- C Conventional4.99
- S Social2.77
- E Enterprising1.51
- A Artistic1.13
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 Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists (29-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (16)
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.
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- cryopreservation
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- mix chemicals
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform laboratory tests
- perform sample testing
- prepare samples for testing
- record test data
- stem cells
- test chemical samples
- use chemical analysis equipment
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work safely with chemicals
Optional (66)
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- analyse samples of food and beverages
- analyse test data
- answer patients' questions
- archive healthcare users' records
- archive scientific documentation
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- assist scientific research
- automated analysers in the medical laboratory
- biological chemistry
- biology
- blood collection on babies
- blood donation
- blood transfusion
- blood type classification
- carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories
- check material resources
- check the received biological samples
- chemistry
- clinical biochemistry
- clinical cytology
- collect biological samples from patients
- collect samples for analysis
- communicate in healthcare
- conduct routine blood testing
- data protection
- develop scientific research protocols
- dispose medical waste
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- examine cell specimens microscopically
- examine samples in dermatology
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients
- fine-needle aspiration
- histopathology
- identify patients' medical records
- immunology
- interpret electromyograms
- interpret hematological test results
- interpret medical results
- label blood samples
- label samples
- life sciences
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- manage chemical processes inspection
- manage chemical testing procedures
- manage supplies
- mathematics
- microbiology-bacteriology
- microscopic techniques
- monitor stock level
- order supplies
- paediatric phlebotomy procedures
- perform PCR covid test
- perform bone marrow transplant
- physics
- report test findings
- send samples to laboratory
- sterilise medical equipment
- techniques of blood-sampling
- transport blood samples
- virology
- work with chemicals
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.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 16 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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chemical manufacturing quality technician
7 shared · 12 more of its ownuse chemical analysis equipment, test chemical samples, calibrate laboratory equipment, laboratory techniques
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biology technician
7 shared · 15 more of its ownstem cells, cryopreservation, maintain laboratory equipment, calibrate laboratory equipment
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chemistry technician
7 shared · 20 more of its ownmix chemicals, use chemical analysis equipment, maintain laboratory equipment, test chemical samples
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bacteriology technician
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