Which process involves determining the duties and qualifications needed to fill a position?

• A. Job Description
• B. Job Posting
• C. Job Analysis
• D. Job Evaluation

Answer: (C)

Determining the duties and qualifications needed to fill a position comes from analyzing the job. Job analysis is the process of gathering information about the tasks, responsibilities, and environment of a job, along with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and credentials required to perform it effectively. Through methods like interviews with current workers and supervisors, surveys, observations, and reviewing existing documents, analysts pinpoint what the job entails and what a candidate must bring to do it well. The results typically produce two core outputs: a job description, which lists the duties and responsibilities, and a job specification (or requirements), which states the qualifications. This makes job analysis the direct approach to defining who should be hired for the role.

Why the other options don’t fit: a job description is the end product that describes the role’s duties, not the process of determining them; a job posting is simply the advertisement used to recruit applicants; job evaluation focuses on comparing jobs to set relative worth for compensation.