Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for surveyors. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
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