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Career Details : Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists

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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.

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