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Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques

AI can do the arithmetic, build the spreadsheet formula and suggest what to look at. Deciding what the numbers mean for your situation is still you.

Part of Analyze data to improve operations, under the O*NET work activity group Analyzing Data or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 7 AI-assist, 0 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.AI-assist Management Analysts
• Evaluate job positions, determining classification, exempt or non-exempt status, and salary.AI-assist Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
• Prepare occupational classifications, job descriptions, and salary scales.AI-assist Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
• Assess need for and develop job analysis instruments and materials.AI-assist Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
• Research job and worker requirements, structural and functional relationships among jobs and occupations, and occupational trends.AI-assist Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.AI-assist Logistics Engineers
• Observe, interview, and survey employees and conduct focus group meetings to collect job, organizational, and occupational information.AI-assist Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists