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Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers

Also called: Affirmative Action Officer (AA Officer), Civil Rights Investigator, Equal Employment Opportunity Officer (EEO Officer), Equal Opportunity Specialist

What they do:

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.
On the job, you'll need:

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

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

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

Spreadsheet software

  • IBM Lotus 1-2-3
  • Microsoft Excel

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Human resources software

  • Bashen LinkLine
  • Yocum & McKee The Complete AAP

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Job Outlook

The job outlook for this position is Bright.

New job opportunities are very likely in the future. This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.

Median Annual Salary: $71,690

Education

Bachelor's degree or some college is usually needed.