Question

Every two years, AARP Employer Resources Center publishes “The Best Employers for Workers over 50”. Review the most recent listing and list the top ten employers and their respective industries. Are you surprised by any of the findings?

Visit the Department of Labor’s O*Net Resource Center. Describe how O*Net classifies jobs. Selecting a position title, search the O*Net database and discuss the type of information provided.

http://www.onetcenter.org

Answer 1

AARP

I could find for the latest only in 2013.

AARP Employer Resources Center -The Best Employers for Workers over 50 -2013

1.        National Institutes of Health (NIH)      - Medical research                       

2.        Scripps Health    - health care provider and hospital system

3.       Atlantic Health System        - non-profit health care provider and hospital system                                                         

4.        The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - degree-granting academic institution, and a cancer treatment and research center

5.          Mercy Health System              - non-profit health care provider and hospital system                                                                            

6.          The YMCA of Greater Rochester    - The charitable association of members offering programs for the community -sports, health and fitness, youth camps, teen programs, senior programs, youth development                                                                    

7.           West Virginia University      -university      offering course in multiple streams      including arts, legal, medicine, management                                                                  

8.          Bon Secours Virginia - health care provider and hospital system     

9.          National Rural Electric Cooperative Association-Association of 900 electric cooperatives in the United States serving 12 percent of the nation's population

10.       WellStar Health System- non-profit health care provider and hospital system  

It is surprising to find that around 70 % of them are related to healthcare and healthcare delivery. Also many of them are non-profits. It is also surprising to find no fortune 500 companies or any big corporations on this list

Department of Labor’s O*Net Resource

O-NET has a content model for aggregating and segregating jobs based on six domains

1. Worker characteristics
2. Worker requirements
3. Experience requirements
4. Occupational requirements
5. Workforce characteristic
6. Occupation-specific information

These six domains are expanded to 277 descriptors of jobs

The O*NET-SOC had its taxonomy revised in 2010 and now includes 1110 occupational titles(including 974 data-level occupations).Changes in workforce requirements, leading to new and emerging (N&E) occupations are identified by the Department of Labor's Employment Training Administration (DOL/ETA) and reflected through frequent amendments. The titles are given occupational codes

Job title- Marketing manager

• General description of the job with responsibilities
• Similar job titles or closely related job titles were also given -Brand Manager,
• Business Development Manager,   Marketing Coordinator  
• The hierarchy of taxonomy for this job title was given

11-0000               Management Occupations

11-2000                Advertising, Marketing, Promotions, Sales Managers

11-2020               Marketing, and Sales Managers

11-2021.00           Marketing Managers

• Related Occupations like sales manager, Advertising and Promotions Managers are also given
• Detailed list of Tasks and business activities of the job to be done for the job title are given
• Equivalent jobs and their titles in military and other streams are also provided