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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Competences — audiology technician

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/521bbfd5-c179-46e3-879b-e74bd6db367c).

Essential

  • advise customers on hearing aids (skill/competence)
  • health, safety and hygiene legislation (knowledge)
  • hygiene in a health care setting (knowledge)
  • maintain laboratory equipment (skill/competence)
  • maintain records of clients' prescriptions (skill/competence)
  • order supplies for audiology services (skill/competence)
  • perform technical tasks with great care (skill/competence)
  • produce impressions for ear moulds (skill/competence)
  • repair hearing aids (skill/competence)
  • types of audiological equipment (knowledge)
  • use of specialised instruments in otorhinolaryngology (skill/competence)

Optional

  • acoustics (knowledge)
  • adapt hearing tests (skill/competence)
  • adjust hearing aids (skill/competence)
  • assist audiologists with screening (skill/competence)
  • communication related to hearing impairment (knowledge)
  • comply with legislation related to health care (skill/competence)
  • contribute to continuity of health care (skill/competence)
  • empathise with the healthcare user (skill/competence)
  • geriatrics (knowledge)
  • hearing aids (knowledge)
  • hearing loss (knowledge)
  • human ear (knowledge)
  • interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology (skill/competence)
  • listen actively (skill/competence)
  • physiology of hearing (knowledge)
  • prepare audiologist patients for assessments (skill/competence)
  • recommend hearing aids (skill/competence)
  • refer healthcare users (skill/competence)
  • use e-health and mobile health technologies (skill/competence)
  • use special hearing equipment for tests (skill/competence)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 59 ads, as of 2026-07-09)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

  • data collection — 20 %
  • patient care — 19 %