Vocational Alternatives Review

The Certified Rehabilitation Professional can provide vocational recommendations based on a forensic review of the injured worker’s education, employment background, and medical and socio-economic factors.  This is a practical approach when an in person assessment is not possible or desired.

A report on the injured worker’s ability to return to gainful employment can be an essential tool in the evaluation of settlement, reserve values or as a precedent to performing labor market survey based on the feasibility of proving the injured worker is capable of obtaining employment.

Transferable Skills Analysis

Matching worker to appropriate job alternatives requires analysis of various factors by the Certified Rehabilitation Professional. The process consists of compiling occupations from the U.S. Department of Labor's Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) to represent a person's work history. The vocational professional will analyze the work activities (work fields) a person has performed in previous jobs, along with the objects on the work activities were performed on (materials, products, subject matter, and services, or MPSMS). They use these data to identify a set of occupations a worker should be able to perform. Assessment results for reasoning, math, and language skills as well as aptitude test results can be used to increase or decrease vocational options. The injured workers residual functional capacities will also be considered by the worker traits associated with their DOT work history.