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Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist

Occupational Therapists
Description
Assess, plan, and deliver vocational rehabilitation services to help individuals with disabilities or injuries prepare for, obtain, and retain employment. Conduct assessments, develop individualized employment plans, coordinate training and accommodations, and collaborate with employers and care teams to remove barriers and support work participation and independence.
Skills
Content
  • • Reading Comprehension
  • • Active Listening
  • • Writing
  • • Speaking
Process
  • • Critical Thinking
  • • Active Learning
  • • Learning Strategies
  • • Monitoring
Social Skills
  • • Social Perceptiveness
  • • Coordination
  • • Persuasion
  • • Negotiation
  • • Instructing
  • • Service Orientation
Complex Problem Solving Skills
  • • Complex Problem Solving
Technical Skills
  • • Operations Analysis
Systems Skills
  • • Judgment and Decision Making
  • • Systems Analysis
  • • Systems Evaluation
Resource Management Skills
  • • Time Management
  • • Management of Personnel Resources
Abilities
Verbal Abilities
  • • Oral Comprehension
  • • Written Comprehension
  • • Oral Expression
  • • Written Expression
Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities
  • • Fluency of Ideas
  • • Originality
  • • Problem Sensitivity
  • • Deductive Reasoning
  • • Inductive Reasoning
  • • Information Ordering
  • • Category Flexibility
Attentiveness
  • • Selective Attention
Fine Manipulative Abilities
  • • Finger Dexterity
Visual Abilities
  • • Near Vision
  • • Far Vision
Auditory and Speech Abilities
  • • Speech Recognition
  • • Speech Clarity
Knowledge
Business and Management
  • • Customer and Personal Service
Mathematics and Science
  • • Biology
  • • Psychology
  • • Sociology and Anthropology
Health Services
  • • Medicine and Dentistry
  • • Therapy and Counseling
Arts and Humanities
  • • English Language
Interview options
Interview options
Interviewee gender
Interviewee accent
Interview time
Related Pathways
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Source
Tasks & skills: O*NET occupational data (work activities, skills, knowledge). Learn more
Sources & Standards: This site includes information from O*NET by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. Career Clutch has modified some of this information for student readability. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Last reviewed: Jan 2026
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