WorkKeys Job Profiling
Job profiling is the process of determining the basic skills that a person needs to do a specific job successfully. This task is performed by an ACT-trained and licensed profiler. The profiler meets with actual employees, subject matter experts, and others involved in the job assignment. Together, this team develops a list of tasks required to perform the assignments. This task list is then analyzed for the basic skills that are required to perform each task. The team sorts the tasks and skills by the skill area and the skill level (or complexity) within each skill area. The result is a job profile. The profile lists the basic skill areas that are most important in the job, and the amount of each skill that is required to perform the job successfully. Note that a given job profile may include only some of the skill areas. This indicates the skills that are most important to performing the job correctly. A company can then use this profile to make decisions for hiring and promotion within the company.

ACT collects information from all the of the job profiles that are created nationally. To date, thousands of jobs have been profiled. ACT then sorts the profiles by occupations in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), and averages the results for all job profiles done for a specific DOT job title. The result is an occupational job profile. These occupational job profiles represent an average skill level that a person needs to be successful in a given occupation. KeyTrain users can search through this database of nearly 1,000 occupations through our web site. While occupational profiles cannot be used solely to make hiring or promotion decisions, they can be used as the basis of counseling, training and educational systems. For instance, One-Stops or schools can use occupational profiles to identify training needed for a person to prepare themselves to enter a desired career.

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