In July of 2004, ERI assigned the management of the eDOT Skills Project to PAQ Services, the most respected of job analysis firms. In exchange, the eDOT Skills Project received access to PAQ's historical library of subject matter field job analysts' raw scores for the 187 PAQ work measures, many word-for-word constructs using DOT measurement scales. Since 1972 over 400,000 of these client-sponsored field job analyses have been completed, with 150,000 jobs analyzed within the past 15 years.

The Occupational Assessor is a PC-based software program available on CD-ROM or Internet download. It accesses over 20,000 job titles, contains field analyst-level reviews of ~10,000 jobs (fluctuating quarterly), and exists as a replacement for the US government's discontinued Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). Combined with ERI's Job Availability Survey, it describes work in modern-day America (that has, as shown in the screenshot above, lost most of its sedentary unskilled job opportunities).

Who Subscribes to the Occupational Assessor?

The DOT has been replaced with O*NET, which is unable to accommodate analyses required in the disability determination process. Today all the major long-term disability carriers subscribe to the Occupational Assessor. Other subscribers include states with their own Workers' Compensation funds (Ohio, Washington, etc.) and hundreds of professionals who serve as vocational experts (in court). The Occupational Assessor also contains the 20 mental/cognitive analyses questions asked during the Social Security Administration's Disability Determination
Process and the State of Ohio's unique skill-based Transitional Grant design.

Occupational Assessor Editions

See the Occupational Assessor Methodology that describes the Occupational Assessor editions: 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).

The demo edition of the Occupational Assessor is free and includes the new Job Search module to assist individuals with disabilities seeking employment. This version also offers limited access to all other Occupational Assessor editions for job titles that start with “A” and “B”.

How To Order

You can order this job analysis software by:

• using PAQ's online shopping cart
• calling PAQ Services at 800-292-2198