Equal Opportunity Representatives & Officers

Monitor and evaluate compliance with equal opportunity laws, guidelines, and policies to ensure that employment practices and contracting arrangements give equal opportunity without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.

On the job, you would:

• Investigate employment practices or alleged violations of laws to document and correct discriminatory factors.
• Prepare reports related to investigations of equal opportunity complaints.
• Interview persons involved in equal opportunity complaints to verify case information.

Education

• bachelor's degree
• some college

Safety and Government

• law and government

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Business

• human resources (HR)
• customer service

Math and Science

• sociology and anthropology

Basic Skills

• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
• reading work related information

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Enterprising

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

• Integrity
• Attention to Detail
• Analytical Thinking
• Dependability
• Self Control
• Stress Tolerance

Verbal

• read and understand what is written
• listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
• notice when problems happen

Visual Understanding

• see hidden patterns
• quickly know what you are looking at