Instructions Step 1. Provide your initial response. (25 points) In Discussion #2, you have decided to start a business in Killeen, TX, and identified

Instructions
Step 1. Provide your initial response. (25 points)
In Discussion #2, you have decided to start a business in Killeen, TX, and identified an employee group
(or job) that is the most critical in delivering the competitive advantage for the business that you have
chosen. For example, you may have chosen to start a car repair shop and have identified the most
critical employee group (or job) as the mechanics.
In this discussion, we will discuss more about what the job that you have chosen actually does and how
we can select job candidates with the right knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the tasks that are
required for the job. If you have not participated in Discussion #2, you can choose any job of your
choice.
You will be learning about selection in Module 2 ? Part 3 (Chapter 6 of our textbook), and this discussion
will allow you to pre-think some issues that you will be learning about then.
Go to the O*Net website (http://www.onetonline.org) and provide your responses to the following
four questions.
Q1) Find a summary report for an occupation that most closely reflects the critical job that you
have chosen in Discussion #2. There are several ways to search for a summary report in O*Net.
The easiest way to search is to use the Occupation Keyword Search box located at the top right
corner of the homepage. Indicate the occupation that you have searched for, and provide a link
to the summary report. For example, for the case of a mechanic job, I have searched the
occupation of ?Automotive Specialty Technicians and Mechanics (Code: 49-3023.02), and the link
to the summary report is: https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/49-3023.02. I have typed in
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the search term ?mechanics in the Occupation Keyword Search box and selected the ?Automotive
Service Technicians and Mechanics from the search result.
Q2) Now, review the section ?Tasks in the summary report. In your opinion, what are the three
most important tasks that the job needs to perform if the job is to deliver the intended
competitive advantage to your customers?
Q3) Now, review the sections ?Knowledge, ?Skills, and ?Abilities (KSAs) in the report. In your
opinion, what are the three most important KSAs that an employee needs to possess if he or she
is to perform the tasks that you have identified in Q2 adequately?
Q4) If you are to hire a new employee for this job, how will you assess the KSAs that you have
answered in Q3? Do not just say something like, I will administer an interview.? In this case, you
need to be a little more specific and let your classmates know how? you will administer the
interview.