A professional who researches occupations and analyzes and integrates data to develop and devise concepts of worker relationships, modify and maintain occupational classification system, and provide business, industry, and government with technical occupational information necessary for utilization of work force. Responsibilities include:

• Confers with business, industry, government, and union officials to arrange for and develop plans for studies and surveys.
• Devises methods and establishes criteria for conducting studies and surveys.
• Researches jobs, industry and organizational concepts and techniques, and worker characteristics to determine job relationships, job functions and content, worker traits, and occupational trends.
• Prepares results of research for publication in form of books, brochures, charts, film, and manuals.
• Identifies need for and develops job analysis tools, such as manuals, reporting forms, training films, and slides.
• Prepares management tools, such as personnel distribution reports, organization and flow charts, job descriptions, tables of job relationships, and worker trait analysis.
• Conducts training and provides technical assistance to promote use of job analysis materials, tools, and concepts in areas of curriculum development, career planning, job restructuring, and government and employment training programs.
• May specialize in providing technical assistance to private, public, or governmental organizations and be designated Industrial Occupational Analyst.