- Job Definition
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Park automobiles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May collect fee.
- Job Zone
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Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
- Interests
- Realistic - Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Enterprising - Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Conventional - Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Knowledge
- Customer and Personal Service - 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.
- English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Skills
- Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Tasks
- Escort customers to their vehicles in order to ensure their safety.
- Service vehicles with gas, oil, and water.
- Perform maintenance on cars in storage in order to protect tires, batteries, and exteriors from deterioration.
- Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.
- Greet customers and open their car doors.
- Calculate parking charges, and collect fees from customers.
- Issue ticket stubs, or place numbered tags on windshields, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.
- Lift, position, and remove barricades in order to open or close parking areas.
- Inspect vehicles in order to detect any damage.
- Review motorists' identification before allowing them to enter parking facilities.
- Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
- Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized.
- Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary.
- Patrol parking areas in order to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property thefts.
- Wages
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In 2008, the California average annual wage was $20,890.00.
Most people employed in this occupation were paid between $16,640.00 and $27,810.00.
- Outlook
During 2006, there were approximately 22,000 people employed in this field in California. It is projected that there will be 23,800 employed in 2016. This occupation will have about 180 openings due to growth and about 600 replacement openings for approximately 780 total annual openings. This occupation .
- Colleges and Training
- There are currently no programs listed for this occupation.
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