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O*NET detailed work activityDetermine resource needs
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AI can lay out options, timelines and checklists to react to. Fitting it to your people, budget and situation is your call.
Part of Determine resource needs of projects or operations, under the O*NET work activity group Making Decisions and Solving Problems. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 11 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Evaluate needs for procurement of funds and investment of surpluses and make appropriate recommendations.
- Compute or estimate cash, payroll, transportation, or personnel requirements.
- Review contracts or work assignments to determine service, machine, or workforce requirements for jobs.
- Forecast necessary levels of staffing and stock at different times to facilitate effective scheduling and ordering.
- Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.
- Assess security needs across locations to ensure proper deployment of loss prevention resources, such as staff and technology.
- Assess staffing needs and recruit staff, using methods such as newspaper advertisements or attendance at job fairs.
- Compute or estimate cash, payroll, transportation, personnel, or storage requirements.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Determine the scope of educational program offerings and prepare drafts of program schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
- Evaluate the organization's technology use and needs and recommend improvements, such as hardware and software upgrades.
- Recommend locations for new facilities, or oversee the remodeling or renovating of current facilities.