Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers
Monitor and evaluate compliance with equal opportunity laws, guidelines, and policies to ensure that employment practices and contracting arrangements give equal opportunity without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.
Most important skills
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Social Perceptiveness
- Writing
- Active Learning
- Complex Problem Solving
Key knowledge
- Law and Government
- English Language
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Customer and Personal Service
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Administration and Management
- Administrative
- Education and Training
What the work involves
- Investigate employment practices or alleged violations of laws to document and correct discriminatory factors.
- Interpret civil rights laws and equal opportunity regulations for individuals or employers.
- Study equal opportunity complaints to clarify issues.
- Coordinate, monitor, or revise complaint procedures to ensure timely processing and review of complaints.
- Conduct surveys and evaluate findings to determine if systematic discrimination exists.
- Provide information, technical assistance, or training to supervisors, managers, or employees on topics such as employee supervision, hiring, grievance procedures, or staff development.
- Prepare reports related to investigations of equal opportunity complaints.
- Interview persons involved in equal opportunity complaints to verify case information.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Enterprising, Conventional, Social.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree (65.8% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (43.9%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months (26%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 4: Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
- Projection education uses SOC 13-1041 (detailed_parent); it may describe a broader group.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Moderate | Higher on contact with others than 54% of occupations compared | 60% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | High | Higher on dealing with the public than 72% of occupations compared | 55% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Very low | Lower on teamwork than 85% of occupations compared | 36% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | High | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 79% of occupations compared | 64% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Low | Lower on time pressure than 75% of occupations compared | 40% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very high | Higher on conflict situations than 90% of occupations compared | 33% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Very high | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 81% of occupations compared | 50% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Consequence of error | Low | Lower on consequence of error than 71% of occupations compared | 33% of surveyed respondents chose “Not serious at all” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: low
- Conflict situations: very high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: very high
- Consequence of error: low
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 3.95%
- Contact with others about half the time: 9.29%
- Contact with others most of the time: 26.34%
- Constant contact with others: 60.42%
n = 42, Incumbent 07/2015
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 12.19%
- Fairly important: 6.23%
- Important: 8.63%
- Very important: 17.77%
- Extremely important: 55.17%
n = 42, Incumbent 07/2015
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 7.54%
- Fairly important: 16.19%
- Important: 11.46%
- Very important: 29.04%
- Extremely important: 35.77%
n = 42, Incumbent 07/2015
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 14.13%
- Some freedom: 22.28%
- A lot of freedom: 63.59%
n = 41, Incumbent 07/2015
Time pressure
- Never: 3.56%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 10.54%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 31.49%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 39.81%
- Every day: 14.6%
n = 41, Incumbent 07/2015
Conflict situations
- Never: 12.19%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 1.82%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 25.17%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 27.64%
- Every day: 33.18%
n = 42, Incumbent 07/2015
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 12.19%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 4.8%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 20.43%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 50.29%
- Every day: 12.28%
n = 42, Incumbent 07/2015
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 32.94%
- Fairly serious: 23.76%
- Serious: 8.75%
- Very serious: 24.61%
- Extremely serious: 9.94%
n = 39, Incumbent 07/2015
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