Occupational Tools
Essay Preview: Occupational Tools
Report this essay
To begin this job seeking process, I assisted Matt in outlining the skills that he currently had developed throughout his schooling and job experience. In utilizing ONETs skills search, we began to understand the areas in which Matt was highly skilled. Also, we now had an understanding of what areas did not interest Matt. There were three main areas in which his skills were highly developed: basic skills, social skills, and technical skills. After identifying his interests into the inventory, Matts interest code was identified as Enterprising Realistic and Investigative (ERI). His interest code allowed us to find appropriate jobs that involved working with ideas that involved intensive thinking, jobs that involved hands on activity, and an occupation that dealt with beginning and finishing a project. In completely the skills inventory, ONET listed the top jobs in which his skills would be best suited, including Respiratory Therapy Technicians, Nuclear Engineer, and Sales Engineer. The table below lists the 16 skills that match his profile to the job he chose to further explore: Sales Engineer.
Importance
Level
Matched
Skill
94
79
Active Listening
92
81
Operations Analysis
92
79
Persuasion
90
82
Reading Comprehension
89
72
Writing
89
76
Social Perceptiveness
88
76
Critical Thinking
88
79
Judgment and Decision Making
86
69
Negotiation
86
75
Monitoring
84
77
Complex Problem Solving
84
78
Coordination
83
76
Active Learning
82
70
Technology Design
81
83
Mathematics
80
72
Speaking
79
73
Science
77
74
Time Management
77
74
Learning Strategies
76
80
Equipment Selection
75
72
Instructing
70
68
Service Orientation
After we had identified his career of interest, we then began to explore the labor market in order to evaluate if this was a growing field of employment. Using ONET, we explored the state and national trends for the occupation of Sales Engineer. Although this web site did not have available information on this particular career for the state of West Virginia, it did provide information on the National level. The projected growth on the national level for this career over the next ten years was approximately 14% (see graph below). Statistically speaking, that would mean that over the next ten years, 3,200 new employees would be needed in order to meet the demand. This particular occupation was listed under indemand on the ONET web site. This means that Matt advancing in a career that is economically critical and substancially adding jobs into the labor market. The main point of concern dealt with is the idea of relocating for this particular career; however, just because the information was not available through this web site did not mean that this job category was not available within the state. Using ONET, we also searched for annual salaries to