On Jan. 2, 1995 the McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS) 7.0 components (McDOT, McPLOT, and MTSP 7.0) were upgraded to the MVQS Version 7.1 Programs. On 5/10/95, these three programs were upgraded to Version 7.11. On 8/16/95, following extensive research on starting wages across 148,520 job openings listed on 66,110 Minnesota Work orders processed during calendar year 1994, MTSP 7.11's Earning Capacity Slope and Intercept were adjusted and all 5^th root Earning Capacity Link Relatives (ECLRs) were revised by Vocationology, Inc., (VI) for use with MTSP 7.11R.

Upgraded copies are now available to MVQS 7.0, and 7.1 users. For details on McDOT 7.11, McPLOT 7.11, and MTSP 7.11R program upgrades, please contact Dr. Billy J. McCroskey at 612-569-0680. Upgrade Prices will vary based on the MVQS Version from which you upgrade. See below for program descriptions.

McDOT 7.11

The McCroskey DOT Program (McDOT 7.11) and the Encyclopedia of Job Requirements (EOJR-94; McCroskey, 1994) were both upgraded to include c. 6% more jobs rated as Indoor Jobs (jobs which typically require no more than occasional exposure to weather . . . i.e., not more than 33% of the time outdoors).

The EOJR-94 complements and enhances the McDOT 7.11 program by adding all of US DOL & VI updated job demands/ worker trait-level and trait-element-level requirement ratings, as well as all updated Crosswalk Codes, including the mid-1994 newly updated US DOL 5-digit Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Codes for all 12,741 Jobs described in the 1991 Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT, 4th ed. revised; US Dept. of Labor, 1991).

The size of the updated McDOT 7.11 program requires about 32 megabytes after including all of the updated EOJR-94 data. It is large because it contains more updated descriptive and rated job demands/worker trait requirements data and crosswalk classification codes for US Jobs than any other program in its class.

McDOT 7.11 has been designed to run like its predecessors, McDOT 7.0 and 7.1. This maximizes the learning curve for McDOT users upgrading from versions 7.0 or 7.1 to 7.11/R. Updated help screens have been added to McDOT 7.11. These comment on new research information and insights designed to increase the internal consistency reliability of EOJR-94 worker trait requirements/job demand profiles.

As you will note from reading the help screens, VI research has identified 2,404 specific internal consistency errors in the US Department of Labor (USDOL) profile ratings and classification codes. These were corrected across a total of 1,913 job profiles. No other computerized DOT program developers have done the research necessary to identify and make these needed corrections. The makes the McDOT 7.11 program the most comprehensive, valid, reliable, and internally consistent and up-to-date program of its kind.

These include:

• Printing written Job Descriptions/ Job Definitions - One Job Description per page.
• Printing a Complete Set of Worker Trait-Level Job Demands, Worker Trait-Element-Level Job Demands, VQs and Crosswalk Codes - One Job Set per page.
• Printing Multiple Job Crosswalk Code Sets - One Job per line for up to 50 Jobs per page.
• Printing Multiple Job Worker Trait-Level & Trait-Element-Level Job Demand Rating Sets (numerically encoded on ascending MVQS Job Analysis Rating Scales) - One Job per line for up to 50 Jobs per page. And,
• Printing Multiple Job-Worker McCroskey EOJR-94 Trait-Level Job Demand Profiles (numerically encoded on ascending MVQS Job Analysis Rating Scales) - One Job Profile per line, up to 50 Job Profiles per page.

McPLOT 7.11

The McCroskey TestPlot Program (McPLOT 7.0) was upgraded to allow for hundreds of vocationally related academic, intellectual, achievement, and aptitude test and/or subtest inputs and for %-ile inputs from High School, Vocational Technical, and/or College Class Grades. McPLOT 7.11 further extends the list of tests which enhances the major 7.0 break-through of allowing teacher class-grade inputs to help guide students toward maximizing their true vocational potential. Teacher inputs in the form of class-grade %-iles allow users to track the vocational development progress of their students, and at the same time, to track their academic progress.

What could be easier and more productive than to maximize the utilization of already existing academic measures, for tracking the vocational development progress of students? Such futuristic tracking can be used for school and college program evaluation, as well as for transitioning students from high school to vocational technical and regular college programs. Such capabilities can be used in follow-up studies for tracking goal-oriented future employability, as well as goal setting relative to future job options for students transitioning to military careers following graduation.

McPLOT 7.11 is unique. It has an improved method for rating Noise and Vibration, which typically nets up to 47.6% more potential job matches. Want-to-be copy-cat programs have been unable to mimic this scientific, yet simple and easy-to-use program. It is a truly amazing program.

McDOT and McPLOT 7.11 programs continue to utilize Version 7.0 manuals, which have worksheets for converting grades to %-iles levels. MTSP 7.11R relies on the MTSP 7.0 manual, except for the revised ECLRs, which are provided separately with MTSP 7.11R program upgrades. It should be noted that these revised ECLRs are not for use with earlier versions of the MTSP Program.

MTSP 7.11R

The McCroskey Transferable Skills Program (MTSP 7.11R) has been upgraded to include all of the latest 1991-1994 errata and internal consistency revisions to baseline job analysis profiles, as well as 1994 re-calculated Vocational Quotients (VQs) based on the latest internally consistent job demand/worker-trait- requirement profiles from the McDOT 7.11 Program's EOJR-94 database.

MTSP 7.11R allows job matches to be printed either with their profiles of significant job requirements, or their special crosswalk codes, or both. MTSP 7.11R has more than 600 Job Bank Databases including:

• ALLJOBS - Contains updated EOJR-94 significant worker trait requirements and crosswalk codes for all 12,741 US Jobs listed in the 1991 DOT (US DOL, 4th ed. revised, 1991).
• NAT - Contains the 1,831 most frequently-hired-for Jobs in the United States constituting c. 95% of all frequently hired-for job positions in the United States.
• OOH - Contains 2,414 jobs listed in the most recent edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH 94-95, US DOL, 1994). The OOH describes these jobs as collectively constituting 91% of all job-worker positions in the United States.
• SSA - Contains the list of nearly 1600 Light and Sedentary Jobs (with updated profiles of worker trait-level job demands), once accepted by the Secretary of the Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW), now called the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as substantial gainful employment existing in significant numbers in three or more United States Regions.
• SEARCH - a practice job bank database combining sets of frequently-hired-for jobs from the original DataMaster Minnesota, Georgia, and Wisconsin Job Bank Databases extracted from 1983 Table A-96 microfiche provided by the US Department of Labor Office in Washington, D.C. (McCroskey, 1983).
• STATE Job Banks-1 for each state in the US. Baseline data identifying frequently-hired-for jobs for these 50 job banks were originally extracted in 1983, from 9-digit DOT Codes for all job openings listed with at least 10 openings on Table A-96 microfiche provided by the US Department of Labor, Main Office in Washington, D.C. Since their original creation, each State Job Bank has been enhanced and enlarged through Vocationology, Inc. (VI) field research to include additional frequently-hired-for jobs. Currently, each State Job Bank Database averages slightly fewer than 2,000 frequently-hired-for jobs, covering c. 95% of all position openings hired for in each state, during the course of a typical year.
• The Minnesota County Economic Region Job Bank Databases, One for each county (N=87) in Minnesota. Data for these Job Bank Databases were provided by the Minnesota Department of Economic Security via special request to Med Chottepanda, Director of the Minnesota Research and Statistics Office. Programming to retrieve the special data sets necessary to produce the 87 Minnesota County Economic Region Job Bank Databases was provided by John Strausberg and Rick Caligiuri. Thanks and a hat tip to John and Rick and helpful others at MN DES Office of Research & Stats.
• The Michigan County Economic Region Job Bank Databases, One for each county (N=83) in Michigan. Data for these Job Bank Databases were provided by the Michigan Department of Labor via special request of Ron Smolarski of Beacon Rehabilitation Services in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thanks and a hat tip to you, Ron.
• The Iowa County Economic Region Job Bank Databases, one for each county (N=99) in Iowa. Data for these Job Bank Databases were provided by the Iowa Department of Labor via special request of Gayle Tichauer, of Vocational Assessments, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska. Thanks and a hat tip to you, Gayle.
• The Nebraska County Economic Region Job Bank Databases, One for each county (N=93) in Nebraska. Data for these Job Bank Databases were provided by the Nebraska Department of Labor via special request of Gayle Tichauer of Vocational Assessments, Inc. in Omaha Nebraska. Thanks and a second hat tip to you, Gayle.
• The South Dakota County Economic Region Job Bank Databases, One for each county (N=67) in South Dakota. The original data for these Job Bank Databases were provided by the North Dakota Department of Labor via special request of Ms. Jan Lowe of Rehabilitation Counselors, Inc., in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Thanks and a hat tip to you, Jan.
• The North Dakota County Economic Region Job Bank Databases, One for each county (N=55) in North Dakota. Data for these Job Bank Databases were provided by the North Dakota Department of Labor via special request of Jan Lowe of Rehabilitation Counselors, Inc., in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Thanks and a second hat tip to you, Jan.
• The Wisconsin County Economic Region Job Bank Databases, One for each county (N=72) in Wisconsin. Data for these Job Bank Databases were provided by the Wisconsin Department of Labor via special request of Scott E. Streater, DVS of Streater Vocational Consulting Services in Winona, Minnesota. Thanks and a special hat tip to you, Scott, not only for the Wisconsin Job Banks Data, but for all of the many other research projects you've helped with in the past, and for those you will help with in the future.