- Content of work: general descriptions of the activity itself, a concrete image
of what a certain occupation, trade, or profession represents.
- Work tools / instruments: remarks on the work instruments / tools used by
the person carrying out an activity in a certain profile.
- Obligations and responsibilities: basic tasks in the job description.
- Work hours: information on the duration of daily activity, characteristics
(regular hours, overtime, shifts, day time, night time work, etc.).
- Environment: the place where the activity is carried out; the work climate.
administrative environment: types of organizations that host that
particular occupation, profession or trade, position in the hierarchy of
an organization, subordination and control, staff, levels of
responsibility and autonomy, promotion possibilities,
physical environment: the place where activities are carried out
(industrial site, office, field work, etc.), schedule and pace, degree of
physical and intellectual effort, toxicity, special work safety issues,
social environment: professional relationships developed with
certain categories of organizations or persons (members of the work
team, internal and external collaborators, clients);
- Risk situations: enumeration of dangers (if any) that can jeopardize the work
(accidents, technical defects, human errors).
- Requirements: medical, psychological and physical requirements of an
activity. Related with the nature of the activity, environment and professional
risks, personal characteristics can be described as what is recommendable
and what is not in an occupation, trade or profession. Counter-indications
either medical or psychological are related to work and refer to the physical
or psychological characteristics to be disadvantages / risks for a person,
safety at work, other people involved.
- Aptitudes: skills necessary for optimal work. What is taken into
consideration are aptitudes that can be assessed by means of psychological
tests: general learning aptitudes, numerical aptitudes, spatial perception,
shape perception, clerical abilities, hand-eye coordination, digital skill,
manual skill, etc.
- Transferable skills: abilities initially practiced in an occupation and that can
successfully be used in other contexts (e.g. using instruments and
equipments, giving advice, following verbal or/and written instructions,
research and investigation, rendering and transmitting information,
elaborating and interpreting information, analysis and assessment of
information, planning and organizing operations and activities, ensuring
services, group work, preparing materials and reports, etc.
