OPNAV ACTION OFFICER COURSE

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• Job and Occupational Interest in the Navy (JOIN)
• Stephen E. Watson, Ph.D.
• Director, Navy Selection and Classification
• 45th Annual International Military
• Testing Association Symposium
• 05NOV03

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Job Matching

• Improve job satisfaction and performance by
  maximizing Sailor-to-Rating Match.
• Simultaneously consider
• Navy Needs
• Applicant Qualifications
• Applicant Career Interests

RIDE
Navy Needs

• N132

Qualifications

• 3Ms

Interests

• JOIN

Mental, Moral, Medical
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Vocational Interest Measurement

• Traditional Approach (e.g., Holland)
• Jobs are cast as types (RIASEC)
• Broad Categories
• Not Navy Specific
• Job Element Approach
• Jobs are classified through elements
• Specific Detail
• Navy Relevant
• Maintainable
• Configurable
• Intuitive
• Job Satisfaction Related to Job Interest Element
  Match
• SI(ET) ? InterestElectronics InterestRepairing
  
• SI(MM) ? InterestMechanics InterestRepairing

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JOIN Spreadsheet Data

• Job template created from job descriptions and
  interviews

• Transformed data Rating DNA

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Subject Matter Expert Model

• 7 Navy Community Areas
• a) Aviation, b) Construction, c) Health care,d)
  Intelligence, e) Submarine, f) Surface, and g)
  Special Programs
• 8 Work environments-Work Styles
• a) indoor, b) outdoor, c) industrial, d) office,
  e) mental, f) physical, g) work independently,
  and) work with a team
• 27 Process-Content (PC) Pairs
• analyze-communications analyze-data
  analyze-documents
• direct-aircraft direct-emergency response
• maintain-documents maintain-electrical equipment
  maintain-electronic equipment maintain-facilities
  maintain-mechanical equipment maintain-office
  equipment maintain-security maintain-supplies
  maintain-weapons
• make-communications make-documents
  make-facilities make-mechanical equipment
• operate-electrical equipment operate-electronic
  equipment operate-facilities operate-mechanical
  equipment operate-office equipment
  operate-weapons
• respond-emergencies
• serve-customers
• train-people

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Factor Analysis

• Created similarity coefficient matrix based on
  commonality of elements
• Subjected matrix to a principal components
  analysis
• The following ratings shared identical PC pair
  make-up
• PN YN, LN, NC, SECF AM AME, PR HT MR, EN
  AE AT, SK JO CTA DT HM DK MS
• The goal was to determine the factors inherent in
  the relationships among the 27 PC pairs across
  the 79 ratings
• A factor, or component, is characterized
  primarily by the combination of tasks which tend
  to occur in common across the jobs
• A 9-component solution with varimax rotation best
  described the data, and accounted for 89 of the
  variance in the PC pairs

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Principal Components

• Technical Electronic Activities (22 of variance)
• Analyze-Data, Maintain-Electronic Equipment,
  Operate-Electronic Equipment
• AE, AW, CTM, CTO, EW, ET-NUC, ET(SS), FT, ST, MT,
  ET, FC, MN, STG, IC, IT
• X-LOAD ABH(-), AD(-), AM(-), AC, PC(-), SH(-),
  AK(-), DC(-), HT(-), GSE, BM(-)

• Technical Mechanical Activities (19 of variance)
• Maintain-Mechanical Equipment, Operate-Mechanical
  Equipment, Operate-Electrical Equipment
• ABE, ABF, ABH, AD, AM, AS, EM-NUC, MM-NUC,
  MM(SS), TM, EM, HT, GSE, GSM, MM,
• X-LOAD CM, EO, CTO(-), MN, DC

• Administrative Activities (14 of variance)
• Analyze-Documents, Maintain-Documents,
  Operate-Office Equipment, Serve-Customers
• JO, PN, RP, AZ, DT, SK(SS), YN(SS), DK, PC, SH,
  DC(-), BM(-)
• X-LOAD ABH(-), AD(-), AS(-), CTT, IS, HT(-)

• Intelligence Activities (8 of variance)
• Analyze-Data, Analyze-Documents,
  Maintain-Documents, Make-Documents,
  Operate-Electronic Equipment, Train-People
• AC, CTI, CTR, CTT, IS, QM
• X-LOAD AZ, OS, ST

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Principal Components

• Construction Activities (8 of variance)
• Analyze-Documents, Maintain-Facilities,
  Make-Facilities, Operate-Mechanical Equipment,
  Operate-Weapons
• BU, CE, EO, SW, UT

• Visual-Creative Activities (5 of variance)
• Make-Documents, Operate-Mechanical Equipment,
  Operate-Office Equipment
• DM, PH, EA, LI

• Component 7 (5 of variance)
• Maintain-Documents Operate-Mechanical Equipment
• CM, AK, OS
• X-LOAD QM, SM

• Weapons Activities (5 of variance)
• Maintain-Electrical Equipment, Maintain-Mechanical
  Equipment Maintain-Weapons, Operate-Weapons,
  Train-People
• AO, GM
• X-LOAD AS

• Component 9 (3 of variance)
• MA(-), SM

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JOIN Instrument Design Model
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Candidate Item Examples

• Syntax Template Process Content
• Dislike Indifferent Like
• 1. Repair Computers
• 2. Repair Machinery
• 3. Repair Customers
• 4. Operate Computers
• 5. Operate Machinery
• 6. Operate Customers
• 7. Etc.

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RIDE/JOIN
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Navy Needs

• N132

Ability

• ASVAB

Interest

• JOIN