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In the 30+ years I've been working, both as an engineer and a
technical writer/manager, I have never encountered a company
that uses the DOL SOC in any way to classify professional
employees. The SOC is merely a set of a statistical categories
used by the DOL to track so-called "standardized" jobs, and
its lack of influence on any non-federal job above the level
of burger-flipper or tire jockey is one of the primay reasons
why the DOL never seems to be able to provide a reliable
prediction of future trends in high-level employment outside
of the govt itself.
If you are working in a private-sector technology or life
sciences company in the US (and probably Canada and
Western Europe as well), the odds are that any outside
data that went into setting your job classification and comps
came from here:
> In fact, STC is working hard to do just this. As a good first step,
> the current exec (Susan Burton) has submitted a revised U.S. standard
> occupational classification (SOC) description for our profession that
> makes it much clearer what we do, and makes it clearer that what we
> do is important. This won't have any immediate effect, but since
> personnel/HR departments use the SOC to classify employees, this will
> gradually improve the administrative perception of our profession as
> time goes by.
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