Dr. Engr. Md. Sakawat Ali

E-mail: sakawat_ali@yahoo.com

A semi-skilled worker is one who does work generally of defined routine nature wherein the major requirement is not so much of the judgment, skill and but for proper discharge of duties assigned to him or relatively narrow job and where important decisions made by others.

Semi-Skilled labor does not require advanced training or specialized skills, but it does require more skills than an unskilled labor job. A few examples of these types of jobs include truck drivers, retail salespersons, bartenders, flight attendants, taxi drivers, waiters, and security guards. Work or study under supervision with some autonomy. “Semi - Skilled Worker”

Knowledge, Skills and Responsibility level of semi-skilled workforces is given below:  

Knowledge	Skills	Responsibility	Job Classification
Moderately broad knowledge in a specific study area.	Basic cognitive and practical skills required to use relevant information in order to carry out tasks and to solve routine problems using simple rules and tools	Work or study under supervision with some autonomy	Semi-Skilled worker

  

Semi-Skilled workforces: 

Semi-skilled work requires paying attention to detail or protecting against risks but it doesn’t include complex job duties. Semi-skilled work doesn't require you to have advanced training or education and typically takes between three and six months to fully learn a semi-skilled job.

Some semi-skilled jobs require monitoring, quality checking, or doing repetitive tasks. Here are some examples of semi-skilled jobs:

• Retail salesperson
• Restaurant Servers
• Security guard
• Telephone solicitor
• Waiter/waitress
• Bartender
• Flight attendant
• Taxi driver
• Laundry operator
• Nurse's assistant
• Furniture mover
• File clerk, and
• Fisherman.

If your past work history includes any semi-skilled work, Social Security may say there are many unskilled or semi-skilled jobs you can do, if your limitations allow it. And it's less likely that you'll fit into a disabled grid rule, because Social Security is more likely to find you have some transferable job skills.

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