The personal characteristics of a laboratory technician might include:
A pleasant personality and enjoys working with people;
The ability to study and graduate from school;
Steady hands to do blood draws;
Ability to use Universal Precautions with every patient;
The ability to do repetitive tasks;
The ability to work independently with assigned tasks;
The ability to work as a team with the lab;
The ability to "take orders" from supervisors;
The ability to understand a variety of test orders and what these tests require (for example, certain blood testing requires a specific amount of blood);
The ability to continually learn, as medical science changes;