OASYS is best known for its transferability of skills process, but it has many other uses. It is an incredibly powerful tool for professionals who must make intensive use of occupational data in the delivery of their services.
Whether conducting transferable skills analysis, building career ladders, developing pre/post studies, testing hypotheticals, or just browsing its occupational database, OASYS is the choice for discerning professionals.
People acquire skills and abilities that they take with them from job to job. OASYS captures the skills and abilities learned from past employment, then summarizes them to form a work history profile. The profile is then modified to reflect the worker’s current abilities. Applying transferable skills analysis rules, the resulting list of occupations can then be used to match to potential job titles, actual vacancies, employers likely to hire, or used to support vocational expert court testimony.
OASYS adheres to the operational definition of TSA contained in the US Code of Federal Regulations. It reports occupations by decreasing levels of transferability, ranging from closest matches to occupations your client has the potential to perform.
OASYS contains Labor Market Employability Assessment (LMEA) functions. LMEA enables a user to perform pre- and post-onset employability studies. Results can be printed or exported to a word processor or Excel® for additional processing.
OASYS can be used to create a list of occupations containing selected characteristics. For example, a list of occupations rated at an SVP of 3 and occasionally requiring fingering. Almost any combination of descriptors can be used to test hypotheticals, or what-ifs.
OASYS can help your client establish a career goal, then construct a list of occupations that lead to achieving the goal via training and/or work experience.
In addition to its many crosswalks and several Open Jobs web crawlers OASYS generates a list of Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) titles and codes for most occupations. North American Industry Classification Codes (NAICS) are also available. These can be used with local SIC/NAICS-coded industry lists to locate sources for labor market survey work, or potential employers likely to employ workers in specified occupations. Optionally, SkillTRAN can supply a list of potential employer names and addresses within a specified geographical area.
Access to information useful for decision-making has never been easier. Occupational information can be accessed by entering key words, by way of occupational group drill-down processes (O*NET, Work Fields, GOE, Industry, etc.), or military occupations. These tools make it easy to find any occupation and information related to it.
OASYS is a dynamic software program that matches a job seeker’s skills and abilities to occupational requirements. It then reports occupations and occupational information about matching occupations and enables a user to check the accuracy of their hunches about a job seeker’s employability. The software also reports occupational outlook (current employment and projections), wage and salary data and more. OASYS is an incredibly powerful tool for use by those who make intensive use of occupational information in the delivery of their services.
Whether conducting transferable skills analysis, building “what if” scenarios for a job seeker, or exploring occupations, OASYS software gives you quick, sure access to useful information. OASYS saves you valuable time and ensures results are accurately and professionally reported. Elegant “point and click” operation makes OASYS the most easily learned system of its kind.
Career Exploration - Access to information useful for career decision-making has never been easier to obtain. When people explore careers, they want job descriptions, work requirements, wages, employment outlook and the names and locations of any local employers likely to offer employment in their career path. And they want it instantly! Once a career goal has been selected, OASYS can report the local post-secondary schools that provide appropriate training. Cutting through volumes of data to get at useful information is only part of what OASYS does well.
Transferable Skills Analysis -In every job, a person acquires skills and knowledge that they take with them as their career progresses. OASYS helps to quickly gather a job seeker’s work history, then summarizes their skills and knowledge from past jobs and creates a skills and abilities profile. The profile can be modified to reflect formal testing, or professional observations that more accurately reflect job seeker skills and knowledge. Applying transferable skills analysis rules, the list of occupations that results from the search can then be used to match with potential employers, or open job orders. OASYS finds matching occupations by decreasing levels of transferability, ranging from closest matches for direct placement through occupations the job seeker has the potential to learn. This built in flexibility is ideal for return-to-work programs, transferability assessments, labor market analysis and dislocated worker placement support functions. It is also used for student counseling and guidance and career transition services, both military and civilian.
Labor Market Employability Assessment (Pre/Post) - this module estimates a person’s employment possibilities within a geographical labor market. It uses nationwide, statewide, or sub-state labor market data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as source data. The Ability Profile adjustment screen used in LMEA enables the user to record a ‘re-injury and a post-injury profile. The profile is then used to determine pre and post labor market access.
Reports may be chosen for all, or portions of the available information about a specific occupation, or for all occupations contained on a list. If you want only to print out a job description and list of potential local employers (optional) most likely to hire, OASYS makes it easy. Just a few key strokes and mouse clicks are all it takes to customize a report to meet your needs. Potential employers are selected through the use of VERTEK’s proprietary occupation-to-industry matrix, which uses DOT Titles and SIC Titles in matrix form.
The Counselor’s Workstation contains job seeker information and functionality. It matches a person’s skills and abilities to the performance requirements of occupations using an Ability Profile and transferable skills analysis. It also compares a job seeker’s profile to any occupation to determine how closely the two match. Using the occupation-to-industry matrix for finding employers likely to hire is also included if you have elected to add a potential employer file (optional).
The Browse Workstation enables the user to review the occupational information contained in the system. Such information as Occupational Outlook, Schools and Training, Wages, Occupational Descriptions and Occupational Descriptors are accessible at the click of a mouse.
The Counselor’s Workstation and the Browse Workstation can be used simultaneously by two workstations on a local area network. Thus, two separate users on a network can be using two different parts of OASYS at the same time
Quick Ways to Find an Occupation
Ever had a problem finding a specific occupation and all the information that goes with it? Point-and-Click your way through the occupational information database in a hurry!
Typing in Key Words is a good way. Click on Occupational Titles, Descriptions, or Both, then enter Key Words and Click to search. Civilian equivalents to military occupations work the same way. Click - print what you want. It all works and it’s quick.
Click to select any of nine indexes to the database. Click on the major, minor and base title levels, then Click to search for the occupational titles. They’re called “drill-downs” and it will surprise you how easy and effective they are to use.
Job Descriptions in an Instant
Click - select an occupation. Click - display the job description. There it is faster than you can blink! Review it task-by-task, print it, copy it to the clipboard for use elsewhere, save it in a Job Seeker’s work history. Need educational requirements, physical demands, work situations, environmental variables? Easy! Click - they’re in front of you. Couldn’t be easier.
Fast, Easy Access to current Labor Market Data
As long as you’re focused on a specific occupation, Click - get national or local employment outlook. How about national or local wage and salary data? Click - it’s in front of you.
Identify Potential Employers
You’ve selected the occupation; you’ve reviewed the employment outlook and wage data; now you want to list the local employers who are likely to offer employment opportunities for your targeted occupation. Click - there’s your list. Click - you’re printing it.
Occupational Training Focus
It starts with a Job Seeker’s career goal. Click - get a list of schools who offer training and education for the occupational goal you’ve selected. Click on any of the schools in the list to get detailed information like address, phone, tuition and more. Then Click - now you see all the other instructional programs offered by the school. A nice way to answer the “what, where, when does it start” kinds of questions. Click back to the school list to review another one. Straight forward and convenient
From “Dead-Ends” to Career Paths
At one time, some occupations were considered “dead end” jobs – no longer. Select a career goal. Click - out comes the list of occupations beginning with entry level and proceeding up the ladder to the career goal. Review each job on the ladder for tasks, labor market outlook, wage and salary and possible employers. Nice way to help a Job Seeker get focused.
The occupational database is obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. It includes information on 12,761 occupations contained in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, along with job performance descriptor definitions and ratings for each occupation. Occupational Unit descriptions for 900 OUs in the SOC-based O*NET are also included. DOT and O*NET occupational unit descriptions can be displayed and/or printed in task or paragraph format.
The entire Occupational Outlook Handbook (BLS) is contained in the software. The OOH is an additional source of occupational wage and employment outlook information to the OES data listed above.
Job Openings - When a list of occupations is displayed, the user can right click on one and select Open Jobs in the related drop-down box. OASYS then offers selections of internet sites to query for job openings. This powerful feature makes use of web crawlers that are constantly on the lookout for job openings throughout the nation. AJB is also included as one of the selections.
Schools and Training Web Pages, Internet Access When a list of occupations is displayed, the user can hightlight one or more, then click on the “Schools” button. When the button is clicked, a list of locations in a selected state displays the list of schools where training for the highlighted occupation is available. By then clicking on a school name the software connects to the Department of Education’s “Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System” (IPEDS) web page. Some schools shown in the IPEDS file also contain a link to the school’s web page.
All features and functions contained in OccuBrowse+ and OASYS are also embedded in OASYS Job Match software.
User Types
Vocational, Employment and Career Counselors
Vocational Expert Witnesses and Life Care Planners
One-Stop Career Centers
Secondary and Vocational Technical Career Labs
Insurance Carriers and Insurance Service Companies
State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
Managed Care and Disability Management Companies
State Employment Security Agencies
School-to-Work Programs
Hospitals and Clinics
Federal Worker Comp Agencies (DOL)
County, State, and Federal Correctional Institutions
Organized Labor
Military Outplacement Centers
Occupational and Career Exploration
Occupational Crosswalk Searches
Guide for Occupational Titles (GOE)
Occupational Information Network (O*NET)
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
Occupational Employment Statistics (OES)
Occupational Aptitude Patterns
Machines, Tools and Work-Aids Codes
Work Field Codes
Designated Industry Codes
Occupational Search Filters by:
Interests
Aptitude Patterns
Employment Growth
Wage / Salary Goals
Transferable Skills Analysis
Matching Job Seekers to:
Occupational Demands
Potential Employers
Specific Job Openings
Matching Job Openings to Job Seeker Abilities
Testing Placement Hunches (what if’s)
Career Path Development
Job Openings – Tracking and Reporting
Job-Seeker Activity Tracking and Reporting
Job Descriptions, Tasks and Job Demand Descriptors
Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and
Occupational Information Network (O*NET)
Labor Market Information (National, State and Local)
Employment and Employment Projections
Wage and Salary Data
Schools and Training Locations
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Potential Employer Names and Addresses (optional)