Does O*NET Do Transferable Skills Analysis?
I also train vocational evaluators in my other role as a vocational software vendor. Several clients have asked about going into court as expert witnesses using O*NET data (which most software systems I represent has now included side-by-side with DOT descriptions – DOT is used to some up with accurate results and O*NET is used to results are reported to the US DOL). While some may feel it is getting a bit hard to expect DOT occupational data from 1991 or before to be viewed as the best source – the O*NET Occupational Units are basically an aggregation of the old DOT task statements, so how is this better? The DOT still has more to offer for Transferable Skills Analysis (TSA) – namely Work Fields (WF); Materials, Products, Subject Matter and Services (MPSMS); and Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP). The DOT also offers more than ten times the number of occupations to choose from to represent a person’s work history and career options. If you start with the DOT, you can identify which
