A dynamic occupational analysis that applies a state of the art computerized and therefore highly efficient interactive group interviewing technique in less time. The participants of the KCOTAS workshop consists of 7-10 highly qualified expert workers, 3 superiors of the same profession, 3 academic personnel, 1 occupational training course developer, 1 human resource consultant, 1 educational curriculum developer, 3 workshop facilitators, 1 test item development expert, & 1 statistical data analyst.
	An identification of the basic elements of the concerned occupation in the form of a comprehensive occupational profile consisting of duties, tasks, subtasks, range of supervisory, independency of operation & accountability, state of the physical efforts, state of the work conditions, enabling requirements for each task, requirements in terms of skilled work and technology in use by customers, by company, and for skilled workers, duties/tasks ratings in terms of importance, difficulty, time consumption, skill levels, and frequency of performance, educational, training programs, and years of expertise prerequisites.
	An integrated verification and benchmarking process of the developed occupational profile to ensure global competitiveness by meeting the highest competency standards.
	The test item development for occupational assessments incorporates top performance parameters as required by leading companies in the industrial, administrative, and services sectors as well as in various public, private, and joint venture administrations. This process includes a verification of test items, final editing and the establishment of a comprehensive electronic test item database for all concerned occupations.
	The development of core elements, for training courses of the analyzed occupations in terms of structure, contents, and duration, meets the actual demand of potential employers. Similarly, educational curriculums are further enhanced for different academic institutes.

Why KCOTAS ?
Other alternative occupational analysis and competency level methodologies were thoroughly examined by the KOSAC technical team both internationally and locally, such methods are various goverment occupational profiles within the State of Kuwait, Kuwait Oil sectors job descriptions, developing a curriculum (DACUM) method,National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) method, Egyptian Vocational Competence- based qualifications (EVCQs) method, Malaysian National occupational Core Curriculum Technique. Despite the fact that NVQ & DACUM are widely used in used in Europe and U.S.A, respectively, they are limited to these regions. The analysis of the NVQ and DACUM system results in that they are time consuming, lenghty processes and costly when considering to develop occupational profiles, build a databse of test items, test the quality of the product, and process the profile. On the other hand, the KCOTAS is very cost effective, short updating cycle ease of use, ownership and functional analysis can be easily embedded after the termination of the workshop session.Furthermore, KCOTAS shortens the lead time required by most conventional method in job profiling and competency testing from a one year time span to a 5 day workshop with highly qualitative occupational profile being produced.

How is KCOTAS different from other similar occupational analysis methods ?
KCOTAS products developed in Kuwait have the following features:

	More Dynamic than other existing methodologies due to the use of the interactive database system.
	Custom made to the Kuwaiti work environment
	Easily updated.
	Straight forward adaptations by other international countries due to the benchmarking process
	KCOTAS workshop sessions are conducted mainly with the use of the advancement of technology which rises upon the traditional process of carrying out a occupational analysis workshop implemented by other methods.