What is the difference between the US governments Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), the new O*NET system, and PAQs enhanced DOT database?
When ERI released the first Salary Assessor software application in 1987, it was thought that the US Department of Labor’s Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) descriptions could greatly assist in creating the format for position descriptions. But when ERI applied its position incorporation policy (that positions common enough to be found in three or more salary surveys be added to the ERI database), we found thousands of positions not covered in the DOT. In fact, over 80% of the Salary Assessor’s jobs were not found among the DOT’s 12,000+ titles. By the time ERI had concluded that the DOT was too outdated to be relied upon, we had already adopted the DOT’s construct. For the past 15 years, ERI has been updating outmoded DOT descriptions and adding new ones, utilizing Internet technology to update all applicable worker characteristic measures. Today, the DOT has been discontinued by the US government and replaced by a job-family approach, the O*NET. The DOT’s analysis measures have
When ERI released the first Salary Assessor software application in 1987, it was thought that the US Department of Labor’s Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) descriptions could greatly assist in creating the format for position descriptions. But when ERI applied its position incorporation policy (that positions common enough to be found in three or more salary surveys be added to the ERI database), we found thousands of positions not covered in the DOT. In fact, over 80% of the Salary Assessor’s jobs were not found among the DOT’s 12,000+ titles. By the time ERI had concluded that the DOT was too outdated to be relied upon, we had already adopted the DOT’s construct. For the past 15 years, ERI has been updating outmoded DOT descriptions and adding new ones, utilizing Internet technology to update all applicable worker characteristic measures. Today, the DOT has been discontinued by the US government and replaced by a job-family approach, the O*NET. The DOT’s analysis measures have
