Conduct amusement or gaming activities
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This work is the relationship itself. An agent can prepare for it and write up what happened afterwards, which is real time saved, but the encounter needs a person present and answerable.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Relationships, negotiation and public-facing presence |
| Jobs that do it | 4 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public (4.A.4.a.8) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 4 occupations that perform it.
- Encourage guests to dance using group dances, competitions, or other party games.
- Establish and maintain banks and table limits for each game.
- Deal cards to house hands, and compare these with players' hands to determine winners, as in black jack.
- Collect cards or tickets from players.
- Lead party games, such as dance-offs or prize giveaways.
- Monitor stations and games and move dealers from game to game to ensure adequate staffing.
- Conduct gambling games, such as dice, roulette, cards, or keno, following all applicable rules and regulations.
- Compare the house hand with players' hands to determine the winner.
- Check to ensure that all players have placed bets before play begins.
- Check to ensure that all players have placed their bets before play begins.
- Stand behind a gaming table and deal the appropriate number of cards to each player.
- Conduct gambling tables or games, such as dice, roulette, cards, or keno, and ensure that game rules are followed.
- Open and close cash floats and game tables.
- Open or close cash floats or game tables.
- Apply rule variations to card games such as poker, in which players bet on the value of their hands.
- Work as part of a team of dealers in games, such as baccarat or craps.
- Participate in games for gambling establishments to provide the minimum complement of players at a table.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Buy nothing. An assistant can prepare you for the encounter and write up what happened afterwards, which is real time saved, but the encounter itself is the work and it needs you in it.
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Who does this work
4 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Conduct amusement or gaming activities”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Operate gaming equipment | 3 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.