Part 1: Job Analysis
Step 1: Read the Job Analysis Exercise File
Please read the Job Analysis Exercise document Action
Take off your manager/employee hat and put on your HR professional hat as you read. Think of this exercise as a job analyst; the job analyst is a role in HR that is responsible for understanding jobs- in what they entail in terms of tasks, responsibilities, and skills- and writing job descriptions. Once you have completed this portion of the assignment, please proceed to Step2: O*Net Online Job Description.
Step 2: Use the O*Net Online Job Search Tool
Please visit Onetonline.org to an external site. and search for your job description using the ‘Occupation Keyword Search,’ found on O*Net’s homepage. ( Business Anaylysis, Sales manager, or product markerting.)
Be sure to record your findings.
Step 3: Incorporating your knowledge of your job and the O*Net information in the previous step, use the Job Description model on page 4 of the Job Analysis Exercise file, including the Sentence Analysis Technique on page 5, and identify the following:
Top 5 tasks
Top 5 KSA’s (Knowledge, Skills, and abilities)
Please reflect on and answer the following questions:
(a) were steps 1 and 2 sufficient to capture your job and accurately document it?
(b) what else would you want to do to document your job description?
(c) what pros and cons do you see in the process of writing job descriptions and job specifications?
Please note that these are reflection questions that will be evaluated based on critical thinking and a demonstration that the student is engaging the chapter material.
