Is it Possible to Directly Apply the American Content Model for Professions also to the Slovene Use

Abstract

In the article, the authors compare national descriptions for professions in the USA and in Slovenia. According to the comparison of publicly accessible information, with contrastive analysis and with help of descriptive method, they have found out that the American – with the standard classification of professions connected with 0*NET content model – offers a more variegated choice of complex information with larger useful value for the experts in the area of human resources, consultants, researchers, and students, secondary school students and other people, who are deciding to take up a certain profession. The main finding of the research is that the American content model offers information on typical profession assignments, knowledge needed, abilities, capabilities, work activities, working conditions, working style, work values, length and type of working experiences required, amount of payment and employment trends in one place.The Slovene regulation includes shorter descriptions of smaller amount of professions and does not include the scheme of necessities for working cadre and work payments. Even though the American model was created in a completely different sphere, with the consideration of certain differences between the professions in the USA and Slovenia, it can be a useful help also for the Slovene users.