Obtain a copy of your current job description from your employer. In the instance that you are unemployed, obtain a copy of your job description from your former job. Provide an analysis of your job description. Do you think that it matches your current status and industry standards? What changes, if and, would you make to the job description/specification?

Answer 1:

Job analysis, contains a simple term called "analysis", which means detailed study or examination of something (job) in order to understand more about it (job). therefore job analysis is to understand more about a specific job in order to optimise it. Job analysis is a systematic process of collecting complete information pertaining to a job. Job analysis is done by job analyst who is an officer have been trained for it.

Job analysis is a procedure through which you determine the duties and responsibilities, nature of the jobs and finally to decide qualifications, skills and knowledge to be required for an employee to perform particular job. Job analysis helps to understand what tasks are important and how they are carried on. Job analysis forms basis for later HR activities such as developing effective training program, selection of employees, setting up of performance standards and assessment of employees ( performance appraisal)and employee remuneration system or compensation plan.

One of the first industrial-organizational psychologists to introduce job analysis was Morris Viteles. In 1922, he used job analysis in order to select employees for a trolley car company

Answer 2.

The main objective of performing a job analysis process is to use this detailed information to establish a correct match between work and worker, to evaluate an employee's performance, to assess the importance of a specific role and to examine the training and development needs of an employee who performs that particular job (“MSG management study guide,” n.d.). Below is a copy of my job description. I do believe that it matches my current status and industry standards.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Junior Clerk-Front Desk

Department: Service Commissions Department

Location: Kingstown, St. Vincent

SUMMARY

Opens, records and files incoming correspondence, handle files leaving and coming into the Department as well as dealing with enquires from the Public and Maintenance of Registers and Stationery.

Tasks

1. Answer public enquires

2. Issue permission to Leave the State to Public Officers

3. Open all incoming correspondence (except confidential and personal mail) and stamp

received

4. Record relevant file numbers on personnel correspondence

5. Record personnel correspondence in incoming register

6. Place mail in appropriate place

i.e - Training and Personnel Folder

- SC/PF Dip for filing

7. File all correspondence for SC files:

- ensuring that continuation sheets, leave schedules are properly maintained

- repair/replace file covers when necessary

8. Despatch and record files leaving and entering the Department

9. Make requisition for all stationery from Government storeroom/Printery

10. Maintain all registers used in the execution of the above duties

11. Maintain the area where stationery is stored

12. Monitors the movement of the folders