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PAQ-Items
The following are examples of individual PAQ Items:
Under Information Input:
- Verbal Sources
- Verbal instructions, orders, requests, conversations, interviews, discussions, or formal
meetings (Consider only verbal communication that is relevant to job performance.)
Under Mental Processes:
- Decision Making
- Indicate the level of decision making typically involved in the job, considering the
number and complexity of the factors that must be taken into account, the variety of
alternatives available, the consequences and importance of the decisions, the background
experience, education, and training required, the precedents available for guidance, and
other relevant considerations.
Under Work Output:
- Precision tools or instruments
- Hand-held powered tools or instruments used to perform operations requiring great
accuracy or precision, such as small dentist drills or laboratory equipment used for
accurate or fine work.
Under Relationships with Other Persons:
- Advising
- Counseling or guiding individuals with regard to problems to be resolved on legal,
financial, scientific, technical, clinical, spiritual, or other professional principles.
Under Job Context:
- Awkward or confining work space
- Conditions that are cramped or uncomfortable.
Under Other Job Characteristics:
- Repetitive Activities
- Performance of the same physical or mental activities repeatedly, without interruption,
for periods of time.
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