Abstrak

Many public and private-sector organizations continue to rely on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) as an important source of occupational information; however, the DOT is no longer being revised, leaving these DOT users to rely on an increasingly outdated source of occupational information. We used job-component validity (JCV) to predict the worker-trait ratings contained in the DOT from job dimension scores collected using the Common-Metric Questionnaire (CMQ).Results indicated that the DOT worker-trait requirement ratings were generally quite predictable via JCV, giving practitioners a new tool that can help them cope with the loss of the DOT.