Problem Statement

Janet is a human resource manager for Fancy Hotels, Inc. — a chain of first-class hotels located in most major U.S. cities. Janet is trying to answer a question that often comes up for the hotel restaurants:

What’s the distinction between a cook and a chef?

The hotel chain doesn’t have clear-cut position descriptions that make the distinction evident, and employees carry both titles. It seems that cooks become chefs when they’ve been employed for a sufficient period of time within the hotel chain, and when their salaries have gone beyond the normal range for cooks.

Janet would like to establish a less ambiguous distinction between these two positions. She turns to the enhanced Dictionary of Occupational Titles to research the matter. Please click on the Load Step-by-Step button to follow along with Janet’s investigation.

Career Interest Edition

First Janet opens up the enhanced Dictionary of Occupational Titles. (From now on we’ll refer to it by its abbreviation, eDOT.)

eDOT opens with a disclaimer. Please review it, then select the circle next to “I have read and understand the disclaimer” and click on the OK button. 

When running eDOT for the first time, a screen titled ‘Submit New Data’ will appear to let you input position data from your organization for use in future eDOT editions. (You can access this option at any time from the eDOT Internet menu.)  To skip this screen, click on the Cancel button in the lower right-hand corner. 

The first thing Janet needs to do is select which edition of eDOT to run.   

Here’s how:

• Step 1: Click on the Edition menu at the top of the eDOT screen.
  
  
• Step 2: A drop-down menu will appear. Click on Career Interest since this is the most appropriate edition for her analyses.

To see a demonstration of this, please click on the image above.