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Emergency Management Specialists

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Career Description

  Coordinate disaster response or crisis management activities, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies, hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations.  

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  Job Zone 4 - Preparation needed
These occupations often involve coordinating, supervising, managing, and/or training others.
 
  Overall Experience  
  A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant needs four years of college and several years of accounting work to be considered qualified.  
  Education  
  Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.  
  Job Training  
  Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.  
  Examples  
  Accountants, chefs and head cooks, computer programmers, historians, and police detectives.  

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