Career Details :: Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
Description
Conduct programs of compensation, benefits, and job analysis for employer. May specialize in specific areas, such as position classification and pension programs.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Analyzes organizational, occupational, and industrial data to facilitate organizational functions and provide technical information to business, industry, and government.
- Prepares research results for publication in form of journals, books, manuals, and film.
- Consults with business, industry, government, and union officials to arrange for, plan, and design occupational studies and surveys.
- Plans and develops curricula and materials for training programs and conducts training.
- Evaluates and improves methods and techniques for selecting, promoting, evaluating, and training workers.
- Determines need for and develops job-analysis instruments and materials.
- Researches job and worker requirements, structural and functional relationships among jobs and occupations, and occupational trends.
- Prepares reports, such as job descriptions, organization and flow charts, and career-path reports, to summarize job-analysis information.
- Observes and interviews employees to collect job, organizational, and occupational information.
Related Careers
- Appraisers, Real Estate
- Farm and Home Management Advisors
- Insurance Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
- Operations Research Analysts
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Analyzing Data or Information
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
- Documenting/Recording Information
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Job-Required Social Interaction
- Objective or Subjective Information
- Indoors
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
Related Majors
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| Career Development/Community Counseling | [ add ] |
| Human Factors | [ add ] |
| Human Resource Development | [ add ] |
| Human Resource Management | [ add ] |
| Human Resource Management/Development | [ add ] |
| Human Resources | [ add ] |
| Human Resources Administration | [ add ] |
| Human Resources Development | [ add ] |
| Human Resources Management | [ add ] |
| Human Resources/Training | [ add ] |
| Human Services Management | [ add ] |
| Industrial Relations/Human Resources | [ add ] |
| Industrial Relations/Human Resources Management | [ add ] |
| Management of Human Resources | [ add ] |
| Management/Human Resources | [ add ] |
| Organizational/Human Resource Development | [ add ] |
| Professional Development | [ add ] |
| Professional Studies | [ add ] |
| Psychology/Personnel/Human Resources Management | [ add ] |
| Technology/Training | [ add ] |
Institutions Offering Related Majors
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