DOT Redux: Why We Did It
Original Broadcast: October 20, 2011
Applied for 2.0 CEUs: CRC, CDMS, CWA, CAA, CCMC, CLCP, CVE
Fees: $69 IARP members; $95 non-members
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Presenters
Tom Kearney, Director of Occupational Analysis and Research, Career Planning Specialists
Jim Danielski, Founder, Career Planning Specialists
About this Webinar
While categorical occupational and labor market information certainly has its uses, the fact remains that whether it is for career development, employment, re-employment, occupational transition, rehabilitation, disability determination or placement, the need for occupational information at the detailed level remains almost universal.
The demise of the Occupational Analysis Field Center Program, along with the final edition of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles did not put an end to the need. Consequently, for the past twelve years, there has been on a smaller scale, a consistent, user driven program to revise and to add to the content of the DOT, including the Worker Trait Structure.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of the session, participations will be able to:
1. Explain the historical roots of a user-driven alternative program to replace the OAFCP and DOT
a. Describe the 1991 model to test and refine the DOT – including a public/private partnership linking the OAFC to MESC Branch Offices
b. Outline the development of the 1999 model to update and continue the DOT
2. Recognize similarities and differences between the old and new model of occupational analysis.
3. Demonstrate counseling applications of the data and discuss future capabilities using the (DOT update program.
About the Faculty:
Tom Kearney, a fifty-year veteran of occupational research and former head of the Michigan Occupational Analysis Field Center, is director of occupational analysis and research for Career Planning Specialists, in Plymouth, Michigan. All occupational revisions and additions including crosswalks to other classification systems are under the direction of Kearney. Kearney conducted the research for the “Aptitudes” section of the U.S. Department of Labor Handbook for Analyzing Jobs and supervised occupational analysis for development of Part IV, Norms for the General Aptitude Test Battery: Occupational Aptitude Patterns. He has personally conducted or supervised occupational analysis studies of more than 30 industries and industrial processes.
During the mid seventies, Jim Danielski received training in job analysis, development and application of DOT data and related assessment techniques form the Michigan Occupational Analysis Field and Assessment Centers. He has forty-two years experience in the area of human development along with a strong scientific, technical and research background extending over forty-seven years. Danielski has worked with a broad spectrum of individual clients ranging from moderately developmentally challenged children to professional clients, including corporate executives. For the past twenty-six years he has provided career advising services to clients both with and without disabilities.
Danielski has been cited by the Michigan Occupational Information Coordinating Committee for “Professional Expertise” related to the career needs of handicapped individuals; the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce for excellence and leadership in the development of a Business-Education Partnership; and the Michigan Apprenticeship Steering Committee together with the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship for outstanding service.
