What You'll Do

  • Count money and audit money drawers.
  • Keep accurate records of monetary exchanges, authorization forms, and transaction reconciliations.
  • Listen for jackpot alarm bells and issue payoffs to winners.
  • Maintain cage security according to rules.
  • Obtain customers' signatures on receipts when winnings exceed the amount held in a slot machine.
  • Reconcile daily summaries of transactions to balance books.
  • Sell gambling chips, tokens, or tickets to patrons, or to other workers for resale to patrons.
  • Calculate the value of chips won or lost by players.
  • Furnish change persons with a money bank at the start of each shift.
  • Accept credit applications and verify credit references to provide check-cashing authorization or to establish house credit accounts.

Essential Skills

Reading Comprehension 3.12/5
Active Listening 3.0/5
Speaking 3.0/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.0/5
Coordination 3.0/5
Service Orientation 3.0/5
Mathematics 2.88/5
Critical Thinking 2.88/5
Monitoring 2.88/5
Complex Problem Solving 2.88/5
Writing 2.75/5
Judgment and Decision Making 2.75/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Integrity, Dependability, Self-Control, Cooperation

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.5/5
Oral Expression 3.38/5
Near Vision 3.38/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.25/5
Information Ordering 3.25/5
Speech Recognition 3.25/5
Written Comprehension 3.12/5
Mathematical Reasoning 3.12/5

Technologies & Tools

Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Spreadsheet software Word processing software

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.74/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.68/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.67/5)
  • Self-Control (High importance: 4.59/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.5/5)

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How to Become One

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful but is usually not required. Training is often provided on the job.

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Also Known As

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