| Important Core Job Duties (in order of importance) For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Oversee the purchase of supplies, gear, and equipment. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Load and unload vessel equipment and supplies, by hand or using hoisting equipment. |
Commercial Flight Careers and Jobs
Select, Find and Prepare for Commercial Flight Careers and Jobs - all on one page
For people specifically targeting a career flying for a commercial airline. Use the tools below to see which commercial flight roles fit your background and goals.
Distinct from general aviation science in its focus on airline-track training, requiring accumulated flight hours and FAA certificates. Use the tools below to explore Commercial Flight-related job titles sorted by growth rate, salary, or required education. You can start with entry points like Certified Flight Instructor, or look ahead to advanced roles such as Airline Captain or Chief Pilot. Along the way, you will see specific certifications, such as FAA Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate, that can help you move up the career ladder.
Here is a short Helper Video 
This page will take you through 4 steps to (1) Select from Commercial Flight careers/jobs, (2) Find Commercial Flight job listings, (3) Prepare for Commercial Flight careers, and (4) Provide Commercial Flight career-specific resources.
Step 1: Select a Career/Job: This page starts with 4 ways for you to identify and select from listings of Commercial Flight careers/jobs:
A) Fastest Growing Commercial Flight Careers - 2023 to 2033 (est.)
These listings are based on job growth estimates and helps you to identify the fastest growing and evolving Commercial Flight careers. Some careers may not initially seem related to Commercial Flight, so relevant Commercial Flight jobs are listed alongside each listing. This can also help us to identify which careers (bottom of the listing) may have negative growth - perhaps due to automation or planned obsolescence.
B) Median Annual Salary U.S. Commercial Flight Careers
These listings are sorted (descending) by median annual salary in the U.S. This may help us to identify our ideal career. We may not qualify at this time for the desired career, but this listing and the results provided can help us to explore job details, as well as learn how to appropriately prepare for the career.
C) Commercial Flight Career Ladders (Educational Requirements)
These listings will help us to identify Commercial Flight careers sorted by educational requirements (with the most difficult to obtain listed first). This may help us to identify career ladders (as we scroll down the list), and help us to get jobs that we qualify for now.
D) Select From a Listing of 120 Commercial Flight Jobs.
The list may be quite long. There are two ways you might like to use this list:
1) Filter - As you enter a word, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles
2) Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
Once you have identified a job title of interest, simply click on it.
Step 2: Find a Job: After you have selected a career/job title above, you will see a form asking for your location. You will see several radio selection choices to utilize the job search site of your choice.
Step 3: Prepare For a Career: In this section you will gain access to detailed information to help you prepare for the chosen career. Information may include (not every career choice includes all of the elements below - updates occur quarterly):
Core Duties: Lists the primary worker-related tasks performed in this occupation
Supplemental Duties: Lists additional tasks that are performed but are secondary to the core duties
Work Activities: Summarizes the broad types of behaviors and actions related to this career
Specific Work Activities: Provides more granular day-to-day activities tied to the work performed
Essential Skills: Provides foundational skills that are core to performing this specific occupation
Transferable Skills: Provides career-portable skills that can be applied across multiple occupations and industries
Day-in-the-Life Summaries: Provides a snapshot of the key activities performed on a typical workday in this career
Knowledge Required: Provides the requirements regarding the acquisition of facts and principles
Software Skills: Lists software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized by category and priority
Preparation Required: Provides a summary of the required experience and education
Education Required: Detailed breakdown of the education required
Training and Experience Required: Detailed breakdown of the training and Training and Experience Required
Local Salary Information: Provides national and local salary ranges
Certifications: Provides appropriate government and private-sector certifications and/or credentials that may be required
Professional Associations: Provides professional associations that are related to the career selected
Job Listings: Provides links to active current job listings for the selected career, along with multiple similar job titles to explore. All information appears on this page without navigating away.
Related Careers to Consider: Lists up to 20 careers that might be of interest to you (related to your initial choice - what they do, what they know, and what they're called), ranked by best fit.
** If you clicked on a link from section D (as described in Step 1 above), you will see one or more links to an occupation that is usually a bit more general than your initial job selection - the link(s) is directly related to the specific job you identified through your prior selections.
*NOTE: It is possible that there may not be a career path identified for the specific job you selected in Step 1. If this is the case, scroll up the page and click on a different career/job.
Step 4: Career-Specific Resources (detailed and constantly updated): Continue to scroll down the page and you will find tabs that provide detailed (updated) links specific to the career you selected. This information includes:
Videos: Provides a listing of video links related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes: Sources for resume materials and techniques. This can help to get you started.
Job Description: Sources that provide job descriptions, which are vital to resume and interview preparation.
Interviews: Provides links that can help you to prepare for and successfully complete the job interview. Can also assist with coffee chats.
Step by Step: Provides links to resources that can help to organize the career search process.
LinkedIn: One of the best professional social media sites that provides links, opportunities, and networking specifically for careers and career development.
Step 1 of 4: Select a Career/Job
21 Commercial Flight careers are listed below (sorted by Percentage Change in Total Job Openings - 2023 to 2033 est.). Commercial Flight-related jobs specific to each career are also provided. This shows which careers are emerging and growing the fastest. Please Scroll and Select below:
| Occupations | U.S. Job Openings 2023-2033 (% change) | Commercial Flight-Related Jobs |
25 Commercial Flight careers are listed below (sorted by U.S. National Median Salary). Commercial Flight-related jobs specific to each occupation are also provided. Please Scroll and Select below::
| Occupations | National Median Salary | Commercial Flight-Related Jobs |
28 Commercial Flight careers are listed (sorted by Education/Preparation Requirements - descending) to provide career ladders. Commercial Flight-related jobs specific to each career are also provided.
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Education/Preparation Categories: 5 = Usually requires graduate school (e.g., Master's degree, Ph.D., M.D., or J.D.) 4 = Usually requires a four-year Bachelor's degree 3 = Usually requires vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or Associate's degree 2 = Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, but not always Please Scroll and Select below: |
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| Occupations | Education/Preparation | Commercial Flight-Related Jobs |
Scroll through the picklist (below). There are 120 specific Commercial Flight job titles listed. Select those that may be of interest - you will get active job listing links, along with detailed resources to help you prepare for a career related to that job.
You can use this form two ways:
Filter - As you enter a keyword, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles below
Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
OR - leave blank and scroll through the choices:
Select a Job Title (Scroll and Select) :
Step 2 of 4: Find a Job
Find Job Listings:
Fishing and Hunting Workers.
Step 3 of 4: Prepare For a Career
Fishing and Hunting Workers
Description: Hunt, trap, catch, or gather wild animals or aquatic animals and plants. May use nets, traps, or other equipment. May haul catch onto ship or other vessel.
Please click on a section below to expand and see detailed occupational information related to "Fishing and Hunting Workers":
U.S. Total Employment (2023):
32,300U.S. Total Employment (2033 est.):
35,800
Employment Change (2023-2033 est.):
3,400 (10.6%) Average Annual Job Openings (2023-2033 est.):
5,300
Core Duties
Supplemental Duties
| Important Supplemental Job Duties (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Participate in animal damage control, wildlife management, disease control, and research activities. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Maintain and repair trapping equipment. |
| Importance: 57 (%) | Description: Transport fish to processing plants or to buyers. |
| Importance: 55 (%) | Description: Attach nets, slings, hooks, blades, or lifting devices to cables, booms, hoists, or dredges. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps. |
| Importance: 48 (%) | Description: Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice. |
| Importance: 48 (%) | Description: Teach or guide individuals or groups unfamiliar with specific hunting methods or types of prey. |
| Importance: 48 (%) | Description: Release quarry from traps or nets and transfer to cages. |
| Importance: 45 (%) | Description: Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land. |
| Importance: 38 (%) | Description: Skin quarry, using knives, and stretch pelts on frames to be cured. |
| Importance: 35 (%) | Description: Track animals by checking for signs such as droppings or destruction of vegetation. |
| Importance: 33 (%) | Description: Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers. |
| Importance: 29 (%) | Description: Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods. |
| Importance: 29 (%) | Description: Obtain required approvals for using poisons or traps, and notify persons in areas where traps and poison are set. |
Work Activities
| Important General Work Activities (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
Specific Work Activities
| Important Specific Work Activities
How can you begin to build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. Specific Work Activities appear below: |
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| Attach equipment extensions or accessories. | |
| Capture or kill animals. | |
| Clean equipment or facilities. | |
| Communicate safety or hazard information to others. | |
| Coordinate resource procurement activities. | |
| Direct activities of agricultural, forestry, or fishery employees. | |
| Drive trucks or other vehicles to or at work sites. | |
| Load agricultural or forestry products for shipment. | |
| Locate animals for fishing or hunting purposes. | |
| Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment. | |
| Navigate water vessels. | |
| Obtain documentation to authorize activities. | |
| Obtain written authorization to perform activities. | |
| Package agricultural products for shipment or further processing. | |
| Position animal trapping or capture equipment. | |
| Protect wildlife or natural areas. | |
| Remove skin or other body parts from animals. | |
| Sort forestry or agricultural materials. | |
| Train workers in farming, forestry, or hunting techniques. | |
| Transport animals, crops, or equipment. | |
Knowledge Required
| Knowledge Required (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar. |
Essential Skills
| Essential Skills (in order of importance)
These are the foundational skills most central to success in this occupation. For the Top 5 most important, how can you begin building experience and confidence using these skills now? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
Transferable Skills
| Transferable Skills (in order of importance)
These are skills that can transfer across occupations and industries. For the Top 5 most important, how can you strengthen these skills now so they support both this career and future career flexibility? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
Day-in-the-Life Summaries
| Day-in-the-Life Summaries These summaries show the main types of activities you are likely to perform on a regular basis in this occupation. How can you imagine your typical workday — using these examples to see if this type of work fits you? |
| Activity: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas. |
| Activity: Communicate with others about operational plans or activities. |
| Activity: Develop systems or practices to mitigate or resolve environmental problems. |
| Activity: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures. |
| Activity: Hunt animals. |
| Activity: Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing. |
| Activity: Maintain tools or equipment. |
| Activity: Manage agricultural or forestry operations. |
| Activity: Move materials, equipment, or supplies. |
| Activity: Obtain formal documentation or authorization. |
| Activity: Operate transportation equipment or vehicles. |
| Activity: Package objects. |
| Activity: Position tools or equipment. |
| Activity: Process animal carcasses. |
| Activity: Set up equipment. |
| Activity: Sort materials or products. |
| Activity: Train others on operational or work procedures. |
Software Skills
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Software Skills These are examples of software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized from most to least important for your career preparation. How can you start learning or practicing the highest-priority tools so that you feel confident using them on the job? |
| Emerging Tech Skills |
| Office suite software: |
| Microsoft Office software |
| Spreadsheet software: |
| Microsoft Excel |
| General Software Tools |
| Analytical or scientific software: |
| DeerDays Strat-Tech Deer Hunting Expert Winchester Ammunition Ballistics Calculator |
| Data base user interface and query software: |
| Catchlog Trading Catchlog OLRAC Electronic Logbook Software Solution |
| Inventory management software: |
| Inventory management systems |
| Map creation software: |
| MaxSea TIMEZERO P-Sea WindPlot Signet Nobeltec Catch Trimble MyTopo Terrain Navigator Pro |
| Route navigation software: |
| MaxSea Time Zero Navigator NOAA |
Preparation Required
| Preparation Required - How much preparation is needed to obtain this type of job? |
| Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed |
| Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training. |
| Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not. |
| Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training. |
| These occupations involve following instructions and often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include dishwashers, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, counter and rental clerks, dental laboratory technicians, and security guards. |
Education Required
| Education Required - by frequency of educational attainment This shows you details about the level of education most commonly held by workers in this occupation. How can you begin planning the educational pathway that will prepare you best for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Education |
| Frequency of Attainment: 45.0 (%) | Level of Education: Less than a High School Diploma |
| Frequency of Attainment: 30.0 (%) | Level of Education: High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) |
| Frequency of Attainment: 15.0 (%) | Level of Education: Some College Courses |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.0 (%) | Level of Education: Post-Secondary Certificate |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.0 (%) | Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree |
Training and Experience Required
| Training and Experience Required - by frequency of training and work experience attainment This section shows you how often different types of training and work experience are required for this occupation. How can you start gaining the kinds of experience and training that are most common for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience |
| Frequency of Attainment: 40.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: None |
| Frequency of Attainment: 20.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 10.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Up to and including 1 month |
| Frequency of Attainment: 10.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years |
Local Salary Information
There are no Salary data available for this occupation - updates are made quarterly
Certifications
| Certifications These are examples of certifications that may be important for this occupation. How can you begin exploring which certifications fit your goals and what steps you would need to take to earn them? |
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Certified Two-Handed Casting Instructor
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Professional Associations
| Professional Associations These associations connect people who work in this occupation or related fields. How can you start using these associations to learn more, build your network, or find mentoring opportunities? |
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American Sportfishing Association (ASA)
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International Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF)
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Job Listings
| Job Listings and Similar Occupational Titles - scroll and click to identify common requirements, keywords, and skills in current job listings |
Related Careers to Consider
Step 4 of 4: Career-Specific Resources
This section contains detailed external resources appropriate to "Fishing and Hunting Workers". Explore these resources to start learning more. Links are constantly updated, so bookmark this page.
Videos
Here is a listing of videos related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes
Here are resources that allow you to see example resumes for this occupation. It may be helpful to see examples from others who have this type of experience.
Job Description
Here are resources that provide job descriptions, which are vital for resume and interview preparation.
Interviews
There are many great resources that can help guide you through the interview process. These links provide help in preparing and performing an effective interview, specific to this occupation.
Step-by-Step
Here are links to help guide you, step-by-step, to become a(n): Fishing and Hunting Workers
LinkedIn®
Here are links to various posts and groups from LinkedIn ® that relate to this occupation. Great way to start building professional contacts in the field that might be most appropriate for you.
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