ERI's Occupational Assessor^™ & Survey (eDOT^®) is an easy-to-use program that provides information concerning 99 characteristics of work for over 10,000 unique jobs found in the US today. Professionals analyze jobs using OA under new US FLSA overtime rules and assist those who desire to reenter the workplace with "lessened capacities". For more in-depth usage, OA+ provides disability determination analyses. OA's online use contributes data to PAQ's eDOT Skills Project cybernetic system of collecting physical, mental, and environmental demands found in the modern workplace, and it also contributes to ERI Salary Surveys and SalariesReview's online survey databases. PAQ, in turn, contributes data to ERI's Job Availability Survey, capturing job occurrences; this counting is complemented with the millions of individuals' job title counts gathered annually from loan and employment applicant earnings verifications, digitized public records including the US SEC, OCR of US IRS returns, SalariesReview and ERI Salary Surveys' patented online surveys, including ERI's study of job board data (licensed from GuideStar, CareerBuilder, the IRS, etc.). The consequence is that ERI can report both the pay for jobs and the frequency of a or the job's occurrence within a geographic area or industry.

ERI and PAQ data are unique. The US DOL, in abandoning its Dictionary of Occupational Titles, today reports on only 750 job families, with broad information of interest mainly to those in career counseling for the general population. The DOL and the SSA have turned their backs on disabled individuals who might brave, at best, a half-dozen job application rejections in their search for employment. The question is simple, "Within a 5-50 mile driving radius, what are the 20 organizations most likely in need of one's skills and physical/mental capabilities"? OA, assisted by the Internet, holds an answer that greatly increases the chances of job search success. This Job Search version is free (part of the Demo Download). Two other versions exist: Professional (for US FLSA determinations, along with an archive 1991 DOT copy, and the described "best" job search for disabled individuals or those unexpectedly unemployed) and the Consultant (used in disability determinations by major disability carriers, the courts, and vocational experts).

Job Search Edition Professional Edition Consultant Edition
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Free Demo/Job Search Edition Occupational Assessor provides unique assistance to job seekers, particularly individuals unexpectedly unemployed, returning from military service, or those with disabilities. This complimentary and easy-to-use software identifies, in today's terms, the skills, knowledge sets, and mental and physical capacities found in work in America. With a few clicks of a mouse, specific jobs, local employers staffing those jobs, job availability statistics, and online job postings within the commuting range of a job applicant become available. Users can match their capabilities against these measures. Job search at the personal level is all about minimizing rejection. ERI's software increases the odds of job search success by identifying "jobs that fit" and local employers likely, or visibly, posting these jobs, while providing contact names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers. OA increases the odds of success. Features include:

• Identify education, achievements, skills, present residence, and any limitations on physical and mental capacities
• Review the jobs found nationally or locally for which present capacities and past training might qualify
• Review three estimations of the number of these jobs within one's area, region, or state
• Generate ERI and PAQ's unique lists of employers within one's commuting radius and employers that have been pre-screened to most likely have the identified alternative positions within their staffing
• Quickly review a digitized list of job board postings by matched employer, area, and/or industry to see if any of these employers might now have "the right job at the right time in the right place"
• Free

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Example Screens for a Job Search:

Create a Filter of Capabilities and/or Limitations	Profile Resident Address and Industry of Interest
View a List of Potential Jobs	Review Job Availability Statistics
Find Local Employers with These Jobs	View Job Boards
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Professional Edition Occupational Assessor (OA) is used to assist in job searches and in determining US FLSA overtime exemption status. Features include:

• For a job search, identify an individual's capability and use the Job Search module
• Identify education, achievements, skills, present residence, and any limitations on physical and mental capacities
• Review the jobs found nationally or locally for which present capacities and past training might qualify
• Review three estimations of the number of these jobs within one's area, region, or state
• Generate ERI and PAQ's unique lists of employers within one's commuting radius, employers that have been pre-screened to most likely have the identified alternative positions within their staffing
• Quickly review a digitized list of job board postings by matched employer, area, and/or industry to see if any of these employers might now have "the right job at the right time in the right place"
• Ability to select any of over 23,000 position titles (For FLSA tests and job searches, an employer or resident address and industry will be required, as many states have their own unique overtime exempt, non-exempt provisions)
• Review the 11 job analysis questions required by 8/23/2004's new Part 541 Regulations, with the eDOT average answer (SCO) captured to date by PAQ's eDOT Skills Project. Enter measures and comments as required to preserve rationale soon forgotten
• $889/annual subscription

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Example Screens for FLSA Testing:

First of Two Editions Available to All ERI Subscribers	FLSA Tests Are Pure Old-Fashioned Job Analysis
Profile Resident Address and Industry of Interest	Review the FLSA Estimates
Example Screens for a Job Search:
Create a Filter of Capabilities and/or Limitations	Review a List of Potential Jobs
Review Job Availability Statistics	Review Local Employers with These Jobs
Job Boards with These or Similar Jobs	Redo for Unlimited Transferable Skill Assessments
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Consultant Edition Occupational Assessor (OA+) & Survey is for use by major disability carriers (some with over 50 subscriptions) and vocational experts (an official IARP committee now studying). Features include:

• All Professional Edition OA data and features plus
• Identify an individual's past jobs/employers and change OA+ "average" job descriptions and measures as required (identifying the skills and capacities one once acquired)
• Review the source data; use eDOT's new data and/or review the Archived 1991 Dictionary of Occupational Titles (if required, as some states and federal agencies still mandate DOT's use)
• Review three methods of computing selected characteristics of occupations (all, with or without Internet visitor input; that is, limiting data to that from field analyses of subject matter experts only)
• Review competitive pay
• Review the likelihood of a favorable SSADI determination as the eDOT Skills Project database contains the 20 mental/cognitive questions found in SSA desk workpapers. OA+ attempts to mirror the SSA Sequential Determination Process
• $2,389/annual subscription

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Example Screens for Disability Determination Assessments

Begin with Capturing an Individual's Work History	Capture the Geographic and Location Histories
Contribute a Job Analyses for Present/Recent Jobs	Capture the Maximum Capacities Illustrated
Describe the Individual's Physical/Mental Capacities	Review a List of Potential Jobs
Review Job Availability Statistics	Review Local Employers with these Jobs
Review Earnings	Profile an Estimated SSI Determination
For In-depth Research, See Field SME Job Analyses	If Necessary, Review Original DOT SCO's
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ERI Salary Surveys (for-profit US, Canada, Italy, UK, and France companies) and in the US, for nonprofits: Abbott, Langer Association Surveys (providing tax-exempt and association sponsored compensation information since 1967)

These $489 - $689 traditional salary surveys offer pure employer-provided survey input with data for both executive and non-managerial jobs.

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