Job Analysis Reflection

This assignment helps you meet CO 1-4 and MO 1 and 2. The first assignment for this course is a reflection on a Job Analysis. You will perform some Job Analysis steps and reflect on lessons learned to demonstrate the importance of conducting a thorough job analysis to accurately describe the most important criteria to be used when making employment decisions. Be sure to address the following module objectives in your discussion:

• Differentiate knowledge, skills, tasks, and outcomes, as critical elements of a valid job analysis.
• Analyze the value of job analyses to improve organizational hiring and performance assessment effectiveness and legal defensibility.

Instructions

To begin your assignment, select a specific job (not just an O*Net “type” of job) for your job analysis. I recommend selecting a job with which you are familiar, such as your own current or past job. You may also select a job of someone you know and interview that person about their job. The important thing is that you must analyze a specific job, not just a general job category. You will compare that specific job to a similar job and will reflect on similarities and differences.

Once you have selected your job, access . In the top right corner, type in the name of the job you have selected to analyze. O*NET refers to jobs as occupations.

Your search will produce a list of occupations. You may find that the occupation you searched for has a name other than the exact term for which you searched, but you should easily be able to figure out the occupation that matches your search term.

Your specific job might not exactly match any O*NET occupation, and that’s okay.

After youve located the occupation, complete and submit the Job Analysis Reflection following these guidelines:

• Create a cover page for your assignment with your name, the assignment name, and your specific job title.
• Include correct section headings for all three sections.
• Use the following outline to guide your analysis and replace the questions in each section with your answers to complete these Job Analysis elements. Be sure to write in complete sentences except where indicated.

1. Organization, Location, Occupational Code, and Job Title

Questions

• What is your specific Job title, organization, and location?
• What is a similar job on O*Net?
• What O*NET SOC (Occupational Code) and title best matches the specific job you are analyzing?
• How is your job different from the general job description provided in the O*NET Occupation Overview?

2. Job Overview

Questions

• Are the most important tasks and task activities for your specific job included in the O*Net list for a comparable job? If not, which ones are missing? Why might that be?
• Are there tasks and activities on the O*Net list that are NOT typically used in your selected job? You may just list them for this answer.
• Are the most important KSAs for your specific job included in the O*Net list for a comparable job? If not, which ones are missing? Why might that be?
• Are there KSAs on the O*Net list that are NOT typically used in your selected job? You may just list them for this answer.

3. Reflection and Analysis

Answer each of these questions in your own words. No quotes or paraphrases can be used but be sure to cite our text or other sources of information for example, about the importance of criteria and effective job analyses.

Questions

• What are criteria relevance, contamination, and deficiency, and why is each one important to consider when making employment hiring, selection, training, and performance appraisal decisions?
• How did your job analysis help you identify the most relevant for your selected job?
• Why would relying only on O*Net information to determine the most important knowledge, skills, abilities, and tasks and activities of the specific job you selected for this assignment result in criteria contamination and deficiency? In other words, what important elements of your selected job were missing from the O*Net information? What things were listed in O*Net information that are NOT important for your specific job?
• Describe two specific examples of employment decision errors (related to hiring, selection, training, or performance appraisal) that might be made if leaders in your specific job’s organization relied only on O*Net to determine what was most important.

In your submission, use at least 2 specific references to incorporate the assigned learning materials.

Submission and Grading Guidelines

• Include a cover page with your name, the assignment title (Job Analysis Reflection), and your specific job title.
• Include correct headings for all three numbered sections.
• Organization, Location, Occupational Code, and Job Title
• Job Overview
• Reflection and Analysis
• Use correct APA format for citations and references.