STEP 2
Locating your Employment History
In order to create a transferable skills analysis you must be able to find your
employment history (previous jobs you have held) or as close a match as possible to your employment history, in our databases.
Our transferable skills analysis is based on your employment history as described in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, which is published by the
U.S. Department of Labor. We use this source to determine transferable skills.
In Step 2 we ask you to please make sure you can locate each of the occupations you have held in the past by searching for key words in the titles. When you are sure you can locate your employment history titles, then you can proceed to Step 3: payment.
Locating your employment history is done by using
our" key word title" search
engine.
We have broken up the various job titles in our databases to make this easier to
do.
You simply enter a key word from one of your past job titles.
EXAMPLE HISTORY:
John Doe has held 4 occupations in his life.
His Employment History is as follows:
1. Bartender
2. Short Order Cook
3. Bank Teller
4. Construction Worker
Using these examples in our search, John can search for any of the following words:
Each of these is a "key" word. Of course some of the words have more meaning and are more descriptive for the type of jobs he used to have.
Searching for Short or Order, probably doesn't describe the title "Short
Order Cook" as well as the word "cook" does.
Therefore, you may want to try to pick the most descriptive word from a job
title as possible, to make your search easier and faster.
This is not to say that "Short" or "Order" would not find
what you are looking for, but it might be slower than looking for all jobs with
the word "cook" in them.
Occupations such as "Bartender" have only one word in the title, therefore you simply enter the 1 key word.
There are times when you may have to be somewhat
creative with your job
history titles.
What you may think your job title is and what the title is in our databases may
be totally different.
Sometimes it is best to try various key words that would describe your
occupational title.
For example, if you are a doctor, you may want to search
on the word "doctor."
It would also be a good idea to try "physician" or the subspecialty
that you practice, such as "psychiatrist."
Your Goal in Step 2 is to make sure you can find the jobs you have
held in our
database, or a job that describes your previous position as closely as possible.
We highly recommend you review the Descriptions using our description
buttons. The closer the match the better.
The reason we ask you to search first is to make sure you can find your job in
our databases. If not, we cannot run a TSA for you. Our databases do
contain most, if not all occupations. However, new occupations are created every
day. We are limited to those occupations as described by the Department of
Labor in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and in the Occupational Outlook
Handbook. If you cannot find your previously held occupations, do not
go on to Step 3.