Vocational experts provide testimony in a variety of venues, including:  Social Security Administration (Office of Disability Adjudication and Review - ODAR), Workers Compensation settlement proceedings, Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Product Liability, Automobile Liability, Class Discrimination, and Family Tort / Marital Dissolution. Experts require a process that is reliable, consistent, and easily explained to the trier of fact.  

SkillTRAN reports are comprehensive, clear and use a defensible methodology rooted in the Code of Federal Regulations defining transferability of skills (20 CFR 404.1568(d)).  This CFR definition is applied in the nearly 3 million annual cases processed by SSA.  Many other venues follow this definition, including Workers Compensation, Long Term Disability Insurance, and Federal Office of Workers Compensation (OWCP).  As a CFR definition, it holds great weight in civil proceedings as well.  SkillTRAN provides a significant amount of documentation to support its customers, particularly vocational experts.

SkillTRAN solutions help vocational experts in their vocational and labor market assessment process through:

• Transferable Skills Analysis
• Pre-Injury / Post-Injury Analysis (Both Plaintiff and Defense)
• Calculation of Occupational Loss
• Presentation of national (US & Canada) and local Labor Market Information (Wages, Employment Numbers, and Long Term Outlook)
• Employer Listings for Labor Market Survey / Sampling
• Unique method to estimate employment at the DOT level

Here are the most relevant SkillTRAN products chosen by this industry:

• OASYS (For higher volume customers)
• Job Browser Pro and OccuBrowse - Very popular in SSA VE work for DOT Employment Number Estimates and response to common DOT hypotheticals.

Internet-Based Services (For lower volume customers)

TSS - Transferable Skills Service - Popular for Defense litigation

PREPOST - Popular for Plaintiff litigation

CCS - Useful in marital dissolution when there are no disabling factors involved