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Personal Care Aides

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Description

Provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities or illness who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation). May also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry. Work is performed in various settings depending on the needs of the care recipient and may include locations such as their home, place of work, out in the community, or at a daytime nonresidential facility.

Business Breakdown

People in this career work in these sectors.

  1. Private, for profit56.08%
  2. State and local government16.68%
  3. Private, not for profit15.81%
  4. Self-employed9.05%
  5. Federal government1.63%

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Education & Interests

Most Common Education Levels

People in this career achieve this level of education.

  • High school 47%
  • Associate's degree 22%
  • Less than high school 17%
  • Post-secondary certificate 6%
  • Some college 5%
  • Master's degree 0%
  • Doctoral degree 0%
  • Bachelor's degree 0%
  • Post baccalaureate 0%
  • Post-doctoral training 0%
  • Post-master's certificate 0%
  • First professional degree 0%

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PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

You may find this career fulfilling if you consider yourself to be:

  • Social — You have an interest in helping, teaching, advising, assisting or providing service to others.
  • Realistic — You have an interest in physically working with equipment, materials or structures.
  • Conventional — You have an interest in following procedures and regulations to organize information or data.

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Knowledge

  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Psychology
  • English Language
  • Therapy and Counseling
  • Transportation

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Data supplied by Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Center of Education Statistics, Defense Manpower Data Center (View our update schedule). Contact any business, college or military service branch to answer additional questions.