Name
Job Analysis That Never Sleeps: Continuous Skills Intelligence for Defensible, Current Credentials
Description

Traditional job task analysis captures competence as a one-time snapshot, then typically waits 3-5 years to look again. In fast-moving fields, that lag lets credentials drift out of step with real practice. This session introduces the Dynamic Skills Surveillance System (DSSS): an always-on intelligence layer that continuously scans labor-market, regulatory, scholarly, and professional-association signals to detect emerging skills as they surface and flag obsolete ones for retirement. Combining NLP classification, an emergence-scoring algorithm, and subject-matter-expert validation at every decision point, the DSSS keeps credentials current, valid, defensible, and job-related. Framed within a Longitudinal JTA spanning entry to expert practice, it reimagines JTAs as continuous workforce intelligence rather than a periodic event, showing how AI and human judgment together keep assessment connected to the work people actually do as work continually changes.

Primary Topic
Skills, Credentialing, and Workforce Alignment
Session Area
Certification & Licensure (C&L) Division, Workforce Skills Credentialing Division, Europe-ATP Division, Asia-ATP Division, India-ATP Division, Technology-Based Assessment Committee, EdTech & Accessibility SIG