For instance, a stay-at-home parent and homemaker might find they have skills in budgeting, child development, food services, property management, and so on.
Care must be taken to select the DOT occupations that best represent the jobs the client has performed successfully in past work.
MPSMS is derived from the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes, which identify employers by type of business.
These variables include training time (SVP), general educational development, aptitudes, temperaments, physical demands, environmental conditions, and relationships to data, people, and things.
There are several TSA software programs, which may or may not follow the Federal Definition of Transferable Skills, including the MVQS (McCroskey Vocational Quotient System), Skilltran, OASYS, Occuda, and RepToolsSSD.
The transferability of a person's skills is most probable and meaningful among jobs in which: The same or a lesser degree of skill is required (Specific Vocational Preparation), and The same or similar tools and machines are used (work fields), and The same or similar raw materials, products, processes or services are involved (Materials, Products, Subject Matter, and Services).