Career roadmap
How to become a Hearing Aid Specialists
What you would actually do
The tasks Hearing Aid Specialistss spend real time on, weighted by how central each one is to the job.
- Advise patients on effects of health conditions or treatments.
- Counsel family members of clients or patients.
- Test patient hearing.
- Adjust prostheses or other assistive devices.
- Repair medical facility equipment.
- Operate diagnostic or therapeutic medical instruments or equipment.
- Fabricate medical devices.
- Assist healthcare practitioners during examinations or treatments.
The skills that actually carry the job
Scored on how much the work depends on each one — not a wishlist, a measurement.
- Active Listening3.9/5
- Service Orientation3.6/5
- Instructing3.5/5
- Speaking3.4/5
- Reading Comprehension3.3/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.3/5
- Writing3.1/5
- Critical Thinking3.1/5
- Active Learning3.1/5
- Monitoring3.1/5
Would this suit you?
Every occupation leans on a particular mix of interests. Here is the mix Hearing Aid Specialistss are measured on — and our free 2-minute Career Match scores you on the same six.
- Social4.7/7
Helping, teaching, caring for and working directly with people
- Investigative4.4/7
Investigating, diagnosing, reasoning through problems with evidence
- Conventional4.2/7
Ordering, checking, following a precise procedure accurately
- Realistic3.7/7
Hands-on, practical, working with tools, machines or the body
- Enterprising1.8/7
Persuading, leading, selling, taking commercial risk
- Artistic1.8/7
Creating, expressing, working without a fixed procedure
Interest profiles from the O*NET 29.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Used under CC BY 4.0.
