Occupation AtlasICT network technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/64c7d461-152c-477f-a8e2-c2c537e9d617
ICT network technician
ICT network technicians install, maintain and troubleshoot networks, data communications equipment and network installed devices such as printers and storage area networks. They also analyse and fix network-related problems reported by users.
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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
CIRConventional · Investigative · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.45
- I Investigative4.61
- R Realistic4.38
- E Enterprising2.64
- S Social2.28
- A Artistic1.00
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 Computer Network Support Specialists (15-1231.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (20)
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.
- ICT network cable limitations
- ICT network routing
- ICT network security risks
- ICT networking hardware
- adjust ICT system capacity
- analyse network bandwidth requirements
- analyse network configuration and performance
- create solutions to problems
- identify suppliers
- implement ICT network diagnostic tools
- implement ICT security policies
- implement a firewall
- implement a virtual private network
- implement anti-virus software
- install electronic communication equipment
- install signal repeaters
- maintain internet protocol configuration
- network standards
- use back-up and recovery tools
- use precision tools
Optional (19)
- Apache Tomcat
- Cisco
- ICT communications protocols
- ICT debugging tools
- ICT security legislation
- ICT system programming
- concepts of telecommunications
- design cloud architecture
- digital systems
- electronics principles
- implement spam protection
- migrate existing data
- network engineering
- network management system tools
- perform ICT security testing
- procurement of ICT network equipment
- remove computer virus or malware from a computer
- solder electronics
- use ICT hardware
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 20 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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ICT system administrator
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communication infrastructure maintainer
5 shared · 8 more of its ownICT network cable limitations, ICT networking hardware, ICT network routing, install electronic communication equipment
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ICT network engineer
5 shared · 18 more of its ownanalyse network configuration and performance, implement ICT network diagnostic tools, network standards, ICT network routing
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telecommunications engineer
5 shared · 20 more of its ownadjust ICT system capacity, analyse network bandwidth requirements, ICT network routing, ICT network security risks
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computer hardware repair technician
2 shared · 18 more of its ownimplement a virtual private network, create solutions to problems
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