FJA Strategies for Addressing O*NET Limitations in a Post-DOT Environment

The goal of this portion of the symposium is not to offer a detailed critique of the O*NET. Rather, we seek to advance a proactive and constructive approach based on FJA that provides an alternative strategic vision for the future of occupational analysis in the 21 century, one that specifically attempts to help former-DOT users deal with the loss of the DOT. Each author describes strategies for leveraging a half-century of FJA theory and empirical research to develop a new national occupational information infrastructure. Methods based on traditional FJA technologies, as well as innovative techniques that build on research from structured job analysis surveys, are considered.

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