PipelineNC Career Profile for
Radiologic Technologists
Career Description
Take x-rays and Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT or CT) scans or administer nonradioactive materials into patient's blood stream for diagnostic purposes. Includes technologists who specialize in other modalities, such as computed tomography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance. 
NC Salary
$35,910
$50,680
$65,970
What It Takes
Required Level of Education - Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) Related Work Experience - Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years On-Site or In-Plant Training - None On-the-Job Training - Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months 
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KnowledgeCustomer and Personal Service
Importance:
 Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Medicine and Dentistry
Importance:
Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
English Language
Importance:
Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Physics
Importance:
Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
Computers and Electronics
Importance:
Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
AbilitiesOral Comprehension
Importance:
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Oral Expression
Importance:
The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Near Vision
Importance:
The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Problem Sensitivity
Importance:
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Information Ordering
Importance:
The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Work Styles
Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. Self Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations. Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. ASSESS YOUR JOB SKILLS FOR THIS CAREER PATH
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