____________________________________Investigative Occupations: Anthropologists and ArcheologistsAnthropologists
! Personality Code: IA! Education/Training Required: Master’s
degree
! Annual Earnings: $53,080
! Beginning Wage: $31,130
! Earnings Growth Potential: High
! Growth: 15.0%
! Annual Job Openings: 446
! Self-Employed: 6.1%
! Part-Time: 20.1%
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Archeologists.Research, evaluate, and establish public policy
concerning the origins of humans; their physical,
social, linguistic, and cultural development; and
their behavior, as well as the cultures, organiza-
tions, and institutions they have created. Collect
information and make judgments through observa-
tion, interviews, and the review of documents. Plan
and direct research to characterize and compare the
economic, demographic, health-care, social, political,
linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cul-
tural groups, communities, and organizations. Write
about and present research fi ndings for a variety of
specialized and general audiences. Advise govern-
ment agencies, private organizations, and communi-
ties regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies
and their potential impacts on cultural institutions,
organizations, and communities. Identify culturally-
specifi c beliefs and practices aff ecting health status
and access to services for distinct populations and
communities in collaboration with medical and pub-
lic health offi cials. Build and use text-based data-
base management systems to support the analysis
of detailed fi rst-hand observational records, or “fi eld
notes.” Develop intervention procedures, utilizing
techniques such as individual and focus group inter-
views, consultations, and participant observation of
social interaction. Construct and test data collection
methods. Explain the origins and physical, social, orcultural development of humans, including physi-
cal attributes, cultural traditions, beliefs, languages,
resource management practices, and settlement pat-
terns. Conduct participatory action research in com-
munities and organizations to assess how work is
done and to design work systems, technologies, and
environments. Train others in the application of eth-
nographic research methods to solve problems in
organizational eff ectiveness, communications, tech-
nology development, policy-making, and program
planning. Formulate general rules that describe and
predict the development and behavior of cultures and
social institutions. Collaborate with economic devel-
opment planners to decide on the implementation
of proposed development policies, plans, and pro-
grams based on culturally institutionalized barriers
and facilitating circumstances. Create data records
for use in describing and analyzing social patterns
and processes, using photography, videography, and
audio recordings.
GOE—Interest Area/Cluster: 15. S c i e nt i fi c
Research, Engineering, and Mathematics. Work
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Work Group: Anthropologists and Archeologists;
Archeologists; Economists; Historians; Industrial-
Organizational Psychologists; Political Scientists;
School Psychologists; Sociologists.
Skills: Writing; Science; Socia l Perceptiveness; Com-
plex Problem Solving; Systems Evaluation; Reading
Comprehension; Systems Analysis; Active Listening.
Education and Training Programs: Anthropol-
ogy; Physical Anthropology. Related Knowledge/
Courses: Sociology and Anthropology; History and
Archeology; Foreign Language; Philosophy and # e-
ology; Geography; Biology.
Work Environment: Indoors; sitting.Anthropologists and Archeologists
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