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Find Your Fit: By Your Abilities

Mental Abilities

Mental Abilities

Ability to reason or think something through. Mental abilities include general learning ability, verbal ability, and numerical ability.

General Learning Ability

General Learning Ability

Mental Abilities

With a general learning ability, you can reason. You can make judgements. You understand instructions. Principles make sense.

Verbal Ability

Verbal Ability

Mental Abilities

This is the ability to understand the meaning of words and the ideas associated with them. It is the ability to use words effectively. With this ability, you comprehend language. You use it to understand relationships between words, sentences and paragraphs. With this ability you can and present information or ideas clearly.

Numerical Ability

Numerical Ability

Mental Abilities

Ability to quickly and accurately carry out arithmetical processes.

Visual Abilities

Visual Abilities

Ability to perceive or become aware of something by using sight. Visual abilities include spatial perception, form perception, and clerical perception.

Spatial Perception

Spatial Perception

Visual Abilities

Ability to think visually about geometric forms and comprehend the two dimensional representation of three-dimensional objects and recognize the relationships resulting from the movement of objects in space. May be used in such tasks as blueprint reading and in solving geometry problems. Frequently described as the ability to visualize objects of two or three dimensions.

Form Perception

Form Perception

Visual Abilities

This is the ability to form an understanding about details in objects and graphics. With this ability, you can make visual comparisons, such as seeing slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures, and widths and lengths of lines.

Clerical Perception

Clerical Perception

Visual Abilities

This is the ability to find the important details in words or charts. An example would be to see differences in copies of text. You would use this ability to proofread words and numbers. It would help you to avoid errors in mathematics.

Physical Abilities

Physical Abilities

Ability to move your hands, feet, and the rest of your body. Physical abilities include motor coordination, finger dexterity, and manual dexterity.

Motor Coordination

Motor Coordination

Physical Abilities

Ability to coordinate eyes, hands and fingers rapidly and accurately when required to respond with precise movements.

Finger Dexterity

Finger Dexterity

Physical Abilities

Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately.

Manual Dexterity

Manual Dexterity

Physical Abilities

Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully and work with the hands in placing and turning motions.

What is this?

The Find Your Fit filter helps you focus on Alberta job postings that match closely with your ability levels. If you aren’t sure how to score your abilities, try using the abilities exercise in CAREERinsite. Results from the exercise can be used to set the scoring of the 9 different types of abilities.

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Date Posted
Results Found 75 job listings matching your criteria
GreenPoint Farm Ltd
Posted February 05, 2024 | Closes April 02, 2024
  • Location: Foothills, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Pengpai Agriculture Ltd.
Posted December 15, 2023 | Closes March 29, 2024
  • Location: Olds, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Neutral Farms Ltd
Posted December 08, 2023 | Closes March 30, 2024
  • Location: Radway, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Harmeson Farms Ltd
Posted March 06, 2024 | Closes March 21, 2024
  • Location: Wildcat, AB
  • Position: Seasonal Full Time
Black Stallion Ranches Ltd.
Posted February 26, 2024 | Closes March 27, 2024
  • Location: East Coulee, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Haarsma Farms Ltd.
Posted January 29, 2024 | Closes March 30, 2024
  • Location: Spruce Grove, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Grassy Lake Potato Company Ltd
Posted February 02, 2024 | Closes March 28, 2024
  • Location: Grassy Lake, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
The 6666 Ranch and Farm Ltd.
Posted March 18, 2024 | Closes April 16, 2024
  • Location: Buck Creek, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Breton Beef Ltd.
Posted February 09, 2024 | Closes March 23, 2024
  • Location: Breton, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Olds Oasis Organic Inc.
Posted February 26, 2024 | Closes March 27, 2024
  • Location: Olds, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Lazy S Ranch Inc
Posted February 22, 2024 | Closes March 23, 2024
  • Location: Mayerthorpe, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time
Royal Crown Greenhouses Ltd
Posted February 19, 2024 | Closes March 20, 2024
  • Location: Calgary, AB
  • Position: Permanent Full Time