- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who plans and conducts public relations program designed to create and maintain favorable public image for employer or client. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and directs development and communication of information designed to keep public informed of employer's programs, accomplishments, or point of view.
* Arranges for public relations efforts in order to meet needs, objectives, and policies of individual, special interest group, business concern, nonprofit organization, or governmental agency, serving as in-house staff member or as outside consultant.
* Prepares and distributes fact sheets, news releases, photographs, scripts, motion pictures, or tape recordings to media representatives and other persons who may be interested in learning about or publicizing employer's activities or message.
* Purchases advertising space and time as required.
* Arranges for and conducts public-contact programs designed to meet employer's objectives, utilizing knowledge of changing attitudes and opinions of consumers, clients, employees, or other interest groups.
* Promotes goodwill through such publicity efforts as speeches, exhibits, films, tours, and question/answer sessions.
* Represents employer during community projects and at public, social, and business gatherings.
* May research data, create ideas, write copy, lay out artwork, contact media representatives, or represent employer directly before general public.
* May develop special projects such as campaign fund raisers or public awareness about political issues.
* May direct activities of subordinates.
* May confer with production and support personnel to coordinate production of television advertisements and on-air promotions.
* May prepare press releases and fact sheets, and compose letters, using computer.
* May disseminate facts and information about organization's activities or governmental agency's programs to general public and be known as Public Information Officer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who researches occupations and analyzes and integrates data to develop and devise concepts of worker relationships, modify and maintain occupational classification system, and provide business, industry, and government with technical occupational information necessary for utilization of work force. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with business, industry, government, and union officials to arrange for and develop plans for studies and surveys.
* Devises methods and establishes criteria for conducting studies and surveys.
* Researches jobs, industry and organizational concepts and techniques, and worker characteristics to determine job relationships, job functions and content, worker traits, and occupational trends.
* Prepares results of research for publication in form of books, brochures, charts, film, and manuals.
* Identifies need for and develops job analysis tools, such as manuals, reporting forms, training films, and slides.
* Prepares management tools, such as personnel distribution reports, organization and flow charts, job descriptions, tables of job relationships, and worker trait analysis.
* Conducts training and provides technical assistance to promote use of job analysis materials, tools, and concepts in areas of curriculum development, career planning, job restructuring, and government and employment training programs.
* May specialize in providing technical assistance to private, public, or governmental organizations and be designated Industrial Occupational Analyst.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who formulates policy and directs and coordinates industrial relations activities of organization. Responsibilities include:
* Formulates policy for subordinate managers of departments, such as employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee services, according to knowledge of company objectives, government regulations, and labor contract terms.
* Writes directives advising department managers of company policy regarding equal employment opportunities, compensation, and employee benefits.
* Analyzes wage and salary reports and data to determine competitive compensation plan.
* Studies legislation, arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining contracts to assess industry trends.
* Consults legal staff to ensure that policies comply with federal and state law.
* Prepares personnel forecast to project employment needs.
* Writes and delivers presentation to corporate officers or government officials regarding industrial relations policies and practices.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs welfare activities for employees of stores, factories, and other industrial and commercial establishments. Responsibilities include:
* Arranges for physical examinations, first aid, and other medical attention.
* Arranges for installation and operation of libraries, lunchrooms, recreational facilities, and educational courses.
* Organizes dances, entertainment, and outings.
* Ensures that lighting is sufficient, sanitary facilities are adequate and in good order, and machinery safeguarded.
* May visit workers' homes to observe their housing and general living conditions and recommend improvements if necessary.
* May assist employees in the solution of personal problems, such as recommending day nurseries for their children and counseling them on personality frictions or emotional maladjustments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and carries out policies relating to all phases of personnel activity. Responsibilities include:
* Recruits, interviews, and selects employees to fill vacant positions.
* Plans and conducts new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward company goals.
* Keeps record of insurance coverage, pension plan, and personnel transactions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, and terminations.
* Investigates accidents and prepares reports for insurance carrier.
* Conducts wage survey within labor market to determine competitive wage rate.
* Prepares budget of personnel operations.
* Meets with shop stewards and supervisors to resolve grievances.
* Writes separation notices for employees separating with cause and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.
* Prepares reports and recommends procedures to reduce absenteeism and turnover.
* Represents company at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
* Contracts with outside suppliers to provide employee services, such as canteen, transportation, or relocation service.
* May prepare budget of personnel operations, using computer terminal.
* May administer manual and dexterity tests to applicants.
* May supervise clerical workers.
* May keep records of hired employee characteristics for governmental reporting purposes.
* May negotiate collective bargaining agreement with business representative, labor union .
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and carries out policies relating to all phases of personnel activity. Responsibilities include:
* Recruits, interviews, and selects employees to fill vacant positions.
* Plans and conducts new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward company goals.
* Keeps record of insurance coverage, pension plan, and personnel transactions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, and terminations.
* Investigates accidents and prepares reports for insurance carrier.
* Conducts wage survey within labor market to determine competitive wage rate.
* Prepares budget of personnel operations.
* Meets with shop stewards and supervisors to resolve grievances.
* Writes separation notices for employees separating with cause and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.
* Prepares reports and recommends procedures to reduce absenteeism and turnover.
* Represents company at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
* Contracts with outside suppliers to provide employee services, such as canteen, transportation, or relocation service.
* May prepare budget of personnel operations, using computer terminal.
* May administer manual and dexterity tests to applicants.
* May supervise clerical workers.
* May keep records of hired employee characteristics for governmental reporting purposes.
* May negotiate collective bargaining agreement with business representative, labor union .
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interviews applicants for television game shows and coordinates studio activities of contestants. Responsibilities include:
* Provides information to applicants concerning show objectives, show format, and screens applicants for compliance with needs of show and established rules.
* Keeps file of applicants and arranges call-back for mock game before producer.
* Notifies chosen applicants of selection and provides required information for applicant's participation in show.
* Performs other personal services, such as attending to needs and comforts of applicants, briefing applicants on studio procedures, and reviewing rules of show.
* May confer with television game show producer to aid in establishing selection standards for contestants.
* May devise testing procedure and materials used during applicant screening.
* May operate camera to photograph applicants.
* May be responsible for final selection of contestants.
* May interview applicants from studio audience and at such locations as shopping centers, colleges, or theaters to select contestants and be designated Interviewer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of job placement service for students and graduates. Responsibilities include:
* Develops placement office procedures.
* Establishes work loads, assigns tasks, and reviews results.
* Conducts in-service training program for placement personnel.
* Interviews applicants to determine qualifications and eligibility for employment.
* Assists individuals to develop employment plans based on appraisals of aptitudes, interests, and personality characteristics, and to plan curriculums accordingly.
* Contacts prospective employers to determine needs and to explain placement service.
* Arranges on-campus interviews between employers and graduating students to facilitate placement of graduates.
* Collects, organizes, and analyzes occupational, educational, and economic information for use in job placement activities.
* Directs maintenance of occupational library.
* Assists in conducting community surveys to gather labor market information, such as prevailing wages, hours, training, and employment possibilities.
* Coordinates program for analyzing campus jobs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages employee benefits program for organization. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and directs implementation and administration of benefits programs designed to insure employees against loss of income due to illness, injury, layoff, or retirement.
* Directs preparation and distribution of written and verbal information to inform employees of benefits programs, such as insurance and pension plans, paid time off, bonus pay, and special employer sponsored activities.
* Analyzes existing benefits policies of organization, and prevailing practices among similar organizations, to establish competitive benefits programs.
* Evaluates services, coverage, and options available through insurance and investment companies, to determine programs best meeting needs of organization.
* Plans modification of existing benefits programs, utilizing knowledge of laws concerning employee insurance coverage, and agreements with labor unions, to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
* Recommends benefits plan changes to management.
* Notifies employees and labor union representatives of changes in benefits programs.
* Directs performance of clerical functions, such as updating records and processing insurance claims.
* May interview, select, hire, and train employees.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages compensation program in establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Directs development and application of techniques of job analysis, job descriptions, evaluations, grading, and pricing in order to determine and record job factors and to determine and convert relative job worth into monetary values to be administered according to pay-scale guidelines and policy formulated by director, industrial relations.
* Analyzes company compensation policies, government regulations concerning payment of minimum wages and overtime pay, prevailing rates in similar organizations and industries, and agreements with labor unions, in order to comply with legal requirements and to establish competitive rates designed to attract, retain, and motivate employees.
* Recommends compensation adjustments according to findings, utilizing knowledge of prevailing rates of straight-time pay, types of wage incentive systems, and special compensation programs for professional, technical, sales, supervisory, managerial, and executive personnel.
* Approves merit increases permitted within budgetary limits and according to pay policies.
* Duties may also include administration of employee benefits program (manager, benefits).
Industry:Professional careers
