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2003 IMTA Proceedings - International Military Testing Association

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tasks. The structure of jobs within an occupation should serve as a guide for refining the Air<br />

Force military classification system or personnel utilization policies for that occupation.<br />

With these capabilities, AFOMS was engaged to assist in providing empirical data that could be<br />

used to identify what tasks are performed in a deployed environment.<br />

METHOD<br />

Survey Development Process<br />

An occupational survey begins with a job inventory (JI) -- a list of all the tasks performed by<br />

members of a given Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) as part of their actual career field work<br />

(that is, additional duties and the like are not included). We include every function that career<br />

field members perform by working with technical training personnel and operational subjectmatter<br />

experts (SMEs) to produce a task list that is complete and understandable to the typical<br />

job incumbent. The SMEs write each task to the same level of specificity across duty areas, and<br />

no task is duplicated in the task list. The JIs used for this project were the most current for each<br />

AFSC as compiled through our ongoing 3-year cyclical survey process.<br />

Survey Administration<br />

This survey was administered to 3-, 5-, and 7-skill-level personnel who are either currently<br />

deployed or have been deployed within the past 12 months in support of contingency operations.<br />

A list of personnel who met these requirements was provided by the Air Force Personnel Center<br />

(AFPC). A web-based survey was developed which included the Job Inventory for each of the<br />

12 AFSCs selected. As the individual responded to certain background questions, they were<br />

branched within the survey to their appropriate JI section.<br />

All 3- and 5-skill-level personnel were branched to their AFSC's JI and instructed to mark only<br />

those tasks they performed while deployed to support a contingency operation. Once they<br />

completed marking all tasks they performed while deployed, they were presented with only those<br />

tasks marked and asked to rate each task on a scale of 1-9 on how well-trained or prepared they<br />

felt they were to perform the task upon arrival at the deployed location. The following rating<br />

scale was used for this data collection:<br />

1 Extremely low preparation/training<br />

2 Very low preparation/training<br />

3 Low preparation/training<br />

4 Below average preparation/training<br />

5 Average preparation/training<br />

6 Above average preparation/training<br />

7 High preparation/training<br />

8 Very high preparation/training<br />

9 Extremely high preparation/training<br />

All 7-skill-level personnel were also branched to their AFSC's JI and instructed to mark those<br />

tasks they felt were important for personnel they supervised to be able to perform upon arrival at<br />

501<br />

45 th Annual Conference of the <strong>International</strong> <strong>Military</strong> <strong>Testing</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />

Pensacola, Florida, 3-6 November <strong>2003</strong>

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