Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for environmental economists. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Write technical documents or academic articles to communicate study results or economic forecasts.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Conduct research on economic and environmental topics, such as alternative fuel use, public and private land use, soil conservation, air and water pollution control, and endangered species protection.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Collect and analyze data to compare the environmental implications of economic policy or practice alternatives.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Assess the costs and benefits of various activities, policies, or regulations that affect the environment or natural resource stocks.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Prepare and deliver presentations to communicate economic and environmental study results, to present policy recommendations, or to raise awareness of environmental consequences.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Develop programs or policy recommendations to achieve environmental goals in cost-effective ways.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Write technical documents or academic articles to communicate study results or economic forecasts.
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