Lesson 4 Part 1

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KSAOs & O*NET

• Other Characteristics
• Exh. 4.9: Examples of Other Job Requirements

Lecture Notes

Now when it comes to workers' specifications we are concerned with KSAOS, knowledge, skills, abilities and other. And Onet is a great resource to develop understanding here, so you click the link provided to own it to go to the Onet content model which I pictured here on the slide, you can see that the Onet content model has under the worker oriented, the top half of the model, worker characteristics which includes abilities. So there's the ‘A' and then under worker requirements as both skills and knowledge. And under experience requirements, you'd certainly have some examples of what are commonly fit under other characteristics. So you have licensure and things like that but then you also have the job oriented side here, so job requirements that are found broadly across certain occupations. And so that's all captured on a content model, so if you click on any job that onet released, the vast majority of the jobs on Onet, you will find it detailed information and ratings on all of these. Many of the ratings come from job incumbents, some come from subject matter experts. But in general Onet is moving towards having job incumbent data on all jobs. The short story is Onet is a great resource to develop your own understanding of that definitions behind knowledge, skills, abilities, and other. And even to think about the breadth of the other category and also to just understand the KSAOs demanded among US jobs.