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Snapshot before the quality program (relevance gates, tiered mapping, QA linter). v1 is the immutable before/after reference; evidence crawl was at ~175/3039 occupations when tagged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDKeXvpT6tENSvyQGLV1Uq
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Market evidence report — anatomical-pathology-technician
Source: 65 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 65), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-08. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 47 | 72 % |
| n/a | 11 | 17 % |
| junior | 6 | 9 % |
| senior | 1 | 2 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | voice recognition software | 5 | 8 % |
| 2 | laboratory information system (LIS) | 3 | 5 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specimen accessioning | 14 | 22 % |
| 2 | specimen preparation | 10 | 15 % |
| 3 | gross description | 9 | 14 % |
| 4 | gross examination | 7 | 11 % |
| 5 | specimen dissection | 7 | 11 % |
| 6 | specimen handling | 7 | 11 % |
| 7 | autopsy assistance | 6 | 9 % |
| 8 | gross dissection | 6 | 9 % |
| 9 | frozen sectioning | 5 | 8 % |
| 10 | quality control | 5 | 8 % |
| 11 | specimen retrieval | 5 | 8 % |
| 12 | tissue dissection | 5 | 8 % |
| 13 | tissue sectioning | 5 | 8 % |
| 14 | dissection | 4 | 6 % |
| 15 | pathology assistance | 4 | 6 % |
| 16 | quality assurance | 4 | 6 % |
| 17 | surgical pathology | 4 | 6 % |
| 18 | surgical specimen dissection | 4 | 6 % |
| 19 | tissue handling | 4 | 6 % |
| 20 | tissue sampling | 4 | 6 % |
| 21 | waste disposal | 4 | 6 % |
| 22 | data entry | 3 | 5 % |
| 23 | equipment maintenance | 3 | 5 % |
| 24 | frozen section preparation | 3 | 5 % |
| 25 | gross specimen examination | 3 | 5 % |
| 26 | histologic sampling | 3 | 5 % |
| 27 | laboratory equipment maintenance | 3 | 5 % |
| 28 | laboratory operations | 3 | 5 % |
| 29 | microtomy | 3 | 5 % |
| 30 | postmortem examinations | 3 | 5 % |
| 31 | radiography | 3 | 5 % |
| 32 | specimen photography | 3 | 5 % |
| 33 | specimen processing | 3 | 5 % |
| 34 | specimen registration | 3 | 5 % |
| 35 | troubleshooting | 3 | 5 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAP compliance | 3 | 5 % |
| 2 | CLIA compliance | 3 | 5 % |
| 3 | quality assurance | 3 | 5 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equipment maintenance | 8 | 12 % |
| 2 | specimen accessioning | 8 | 12 % |
| 3 | specimen labeling | 6 | 9 % |
| 4 | specimen preparation | 6 | 9 % |
| 5 | specimen processing | 6 | 9 % |
| 6 | specimen handling | 5 | 8 % |
| 7 | specimen photography | 5 | 8 % |
| 8 | customer inquiry response | 4 | 6 % |
| 9 | specimen description | 4 | 6 % |
| 10 | specimen grossing | 4 | 6 % |
| 11 | tissue storage | 4 | 6 % |
| 12 | patient care | 3 | 5 % |
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Pathologist Assistant | 4 |
| Pathology Assistant | 4 |
| Pathologists' Assistant | 3 |
| Cytology Histology Laboratory Technician II | 2 |
| Pathologist's Assistant | 2 |
| Pathology Assistant - Long Term Care - Travel | 2 |
| Surgical Pathology Technician | 2 |
| Academic Scholar - Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences | 1 |
| Anatomic Pathology, Pathologists' Assistant, Day Shift | 1 |
| Anatomic Pathology, Pathologists' Assistant, Night Shift | 1 |
| Anatomical Pathology Applications Specialist - North America | 1 |
| Anatomical Pathology Apps Specialist – Hybrid Role | 1 |
| Anatomical Pathology Medical Laboratory Scientist / Medical Laboratory Technician | 1 |
| Anatomical Pathology Supervisor- Laboratory | 1 |
| Anatomical Pathology, Medical Laboratory Scientist / Medical Laboratory Technician - Days | 1 |
| Certified Pathologists Assistant: Clinical Diagnostics Pro | 1 |
| Clinical Lab Technologist/Histotechnologist, Surgical Pathology | 1 |
| Cytology Histology Laboratory Technician I | 1 |
| Cytology Histology Laboratory Technician II in Baltimore | 1 |
| Entry-Level Cytology & Histology Lab Technician | 1 |
| Grossing Technologist | 1 |
| Histology Tech Assistant — Anatomic Pathology Lab | 1 |
| Histotechnician I - Histology Lab | 1 |
| Histotechnologist - Pathology Lab Specialist | 1 |
| Lab Specialist - Pathology Assistant | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.