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Job Analyst

A person who determines the duties of a job, the nature of performance evaluation, the costs associated with hiring someone and so forth. Job analysts help establish whether or not hiring someone is cost effective. A job analyst may work in human resources.

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The first method pertains to 'Job analysts (JA) Method' (objective approach), in which the professional job analysts grade the jobs and recommend the minimum educational requirements for a certain job/occupation [Haratog (2000); Battu, et al.

Mismatch between education and occupation: a case study of Pakistani graduates

No statistics, however, is available for working mothers with young children but job analysts said it could be as high as 25 per cent of the total workforce.

Working mothers demand longer maternity leave

He presents some 200 job descriptions as models for job analysts and recruitment officers who can use them as a basis for writing their own; the descriptions might also be of interest to job seekers and those starting new careers.

The handbook of model job descriptions. (reprint, 2003)

Job analysts solicit critical incidents from incumbent officers and/or their supervisors.

Wanted: the best and the brightest--innovative approaches to selection and hiring

Questions were drawn from activities that job analysts noted that workers perform.

The ability explorer: translating super's ability-related theory propositions into practice

Five temporary job analysts and an administrator are working on it.

Council and unions to hold talks; HUGE PAY AND CONDITIONS REVIEW COULD STAVE OFF pounds 10M OF CLAIMS

The current information contained in the O*NET database was developed by job analysts using the O*NET skill-based structure, but according to the Labor Department's Employment & Training Administration, future data will come directly from the workers and employers themselves.

O*NET, the occupational information network. (Front and Center)

The skills and abilities needed in the job were identified through ratings by six experienced CEO trainers and four job analysts. Abilities needed for the job were divided into categories of vision abilities, hearing abilities, dexterity abilities, and physical abilities.

Development and Validation of a Computer Interactive Test Battery

Job analysts provided job level data, and supervisors provided incumbent level data, both of which controlled potential NA bias.

The role of negative affectivity in employee reactions to job characteristics: bias effect or substantive effect?

Initially, information is gathered directly by full-time, highly trained job analysts who observe and interview job incumbents and supervisors working in a specific occupation (an occupation is a class of jobs with common requirements).

Empowering Career Decision-Making: A Practical Strategy for Using Occupational Information

That leaves us with the last, and most direct, measure of job content changes--observation by job analysts of actual job-skill requirements.

Whose skills shortage - workers or management?

A working glossary was developed that would neutralize library and computing vernacular, at least to the degree that "OPAC" became "campus-wide information system" and "debug" became "correct a problem." It was also intended to interpret professional shorthand into phrases that could be better understood by job analysts without knowledge of a particular profession.