What is a vocational expert?
A vocational expert is a person who has normally had education and training in vocational counseling and who helps unemployed persons find suitable employment. Because of their education, training and direct involvement in job placement activities, vocational experts develop special expertise in the jobs that would be available to a particular injured worker and the current compensations that worker might be expected to earn. For that reason, vocational experts are often called upon in personal injury actions to make estimates of the earning capacity or expected earnings of workers who are forced to take new jobs because of an injury at issue in a tort action. Many vocational experts are vocational rehabilitation experts.
