Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs

As a courtesy to the rehabilitation, forensic, and counseling professions and particularly for SkillTRAN customers, SkillTRAN has excerpted significant portions of the Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs (RHAJ).

    U.S. Department of Labor (1991).  Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs.  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

As transcription is completed, additional sections will be added. This is NOT the complete text of the RHAJ. Reprints of the book, (no longer available by general distribution from the Government Printing Office), remain available through Elliott & Fitzpatrick Publishing.  Click here to link to the E&F web site.

The RHAJ was the key guiding document used by job analysts to write job and occupational descriptions and to rate worker characteristic values while building the 1991 edition of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. As such, any interpretation of what the characteristics mean should be strictly in the context of the RHAJ definitions. Chapters devoted to worker characteristics are primarily highlighted.  Extensive examples of each functional level are NOT included in these transcriptions.  Certain chapters helpful to the process of Job Analysis are posted.

Excerpted material available from the RHAJ:

• CHAPTER 1 - JOB ANALYSIS:  WHAT IT IS AND ITS USES
• CHAPTER 2 - CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF JOB ANALYSIS
  
• CHAPTER 3 - WORKER FUNCTIONS (Data-People-Things)
  
• CHAPTER 4 - WORK FIELDS
  
• CHAPTER 5 - MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, SUBJECT MATTER, AND SERVICES (MPSMS)
• CHAPTER 6 - SENTENCE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE
• CHAPTER 7 - GENERAL EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (GED)
• CHAPTER 8 - SPECIFIC VOCATIONAL PREPARATION (SVP)
• CHAPTER 9 - APTITUDES
• CHAPTER 10 - TEMPERAMENTS
• CHAPTER 12 - PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
• CHAPTER 13 -WRITING JOB SUMMARIES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TASKS
  
• CHAPTER 14 - THE JOB ANALYSIS REPORT

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