The practical technical skills behind skilled trades.
Skilled technical work is STEM you do with your hands. Whether it's wiring a building or fixing a factory machine, the core skills are:
- Understanding systems — how the parts of an electrical or mechanical system fit and affect each other.
- Troubleshooting — working backward from a symptom to the real cause, methodically, instead of guessing.
- Reading technical information — diagrams, manuals, and codes.
These roles reward people who like solving concrete problems and seeing the result of their work immediately.