A switchboard operator's main responsibility is to answer and direct telephone calls in a polite and informative manner. Job prospects for switchboard operators are projected to drop by more than 20 ...

Many large corporations, hotels and hospitals hire and train telecommunications operators to route incoming telephone calls using what's known as a private branch exchange, or PBX, switchboard. The ...

Over the course of the past 50 years or more, technology has moved at such a pace that jobs people used to do have been replaced by computers or other forms of automation. Jobs such as bowling alley ...