Overview

Job analysis, job descriptions, and job evaluation are foundational to creating a compensation plan. This webinar will provide participants with the knowledge to successfully implement each of them.

Several job analysis techniques that may be used to obtain and document the job content of each distinct role performed within an organization will be discussed. Guidelines for conducting a job analysis interview will be provided and pointers given for designing an effective job analysis questionnaire.

Job descriptions are essential to maintaining an equitable and competitive compensation program. They are also useful in other areas of HR administration. The importance of the different components of a job description will be addressed and a job description template will be provided.

Job evaluation assigns relative value to an organization’s jobs based on job content. There are several different job evaluation methodologies, and this webinar will examine those that are most commonly used highlighting the differences between each.

This webinar can be taken alone or as part of a series that should be taken in this order: Compensation Basics: Job Analysis, Descriptions & Evaluations, Analyzing and Using Salary Survey Data, Designing Pay Structures.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the training, skills, and personal attributes needed to be a job analyst
• Recognize different methods for collecting job content information
• Specify uses for job descriptions
• Recognize sources for job description content
• Identify the components of a job description
• Specify how to complete an effective job description
• Differentiate between five commonly used job evaluation methodologies: job ranking, job classification, factor comparison, point factor and market pricing
• Recognize how to perform job evaluation using any of the five discussed methodologies
• Define primary differences between market-based job evaluation and evaluation of job content or job value

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