Career Details :: Funeral Directors
Description
Perform various tasks to arrange and direct funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary for embalming, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, procuring official for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Arranges and directs funeral services.
- Interviews family or other authorized person to arrange details, such as selection of casket and location and time of burial.
- Closes casket and leads funeral cortege to church or burial site.
- Directs placement and removal of casket from hearse.
- Plans placement of casket in parlor or chapel and adjusts lights, fixtures, and floral displays.
- Directs preparations and shipment of body for out-of-state burial.
Related Careers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing
- Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Job-Required Social Interaction
- Deal With External Customers
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Provide a Service to Others
- Indoors
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Funeral Home Management |  [ add ] |
| Funeral Service | [ add ] |
| Funeral Service Administration | [ add ] |
| Mortuary Science | [ add ] |
Institutions Offering Related Majors
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