The Results-Oriented Fishing Workplace

Fishing jobs, whether catching fish, sorting clams, or working in a hatchery, are involved in a lot of detail. When fishing people are so engrossed in the details of their jobs, it's easy for them, for anyone actually, to lose sight of the job's major contribution.

A Results-Oriented Fishing Job Description is different from a traditional job description because it focuses an employee on the several job results that answer the question: What results must this fishing job accomplish for the organization?

Fishing Job Standards added to job expectations tighten management controls by clarifying how well and when results must be accomplished.

Fishing Job Objectives establish management and employee plans by highlighting important current and future results needed.

Job-specific Fishing Employee Management Forms maintain consistent and legally sound management actions by basing manager-employee interactions on job results.

The Purpose of Fishing Jobs

Stated in a results-oriented, three-line style, fishing jobs--

CATCHES SEAFOOD by

lowering and raising nets and baskets; operating equipment; hand-picking unmarketable and illegal items; sorting items by size; loading seafood and ice into containers; maintaining equipment.

Types of Fishing Jobs

Some fishing jobs work on boats to catch seafood, while other jobs are found in hatcheries where seafood is grown. Still other jobs fasten bait inside a pot, lower the pot into water, and later retrieve the pot.

Other jobs inspect shellfish beds and ponds, ascertain the quality of seed distribution, adequacy of cultivation, and completeness of harvesting. And, of course, somebody has to manage and supervise the fishing people and processes.

Fishing Job Management Tools

Here are actual job examples of how fishing job actions can be focused on results and kept on track using each of our job management tools:

Results-Oriented Fishing Job Descriptions form the foundation of all job management tools. Our uniquely structured job descriptions focus on the result to be accomplished first and prominently, followed by the duties performed in order to accomplish the result. For example,

RECOMMENDS FISHING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Fishing Job Standards sharpen employee attention and management control by defining and communicating how well the fishing results must be accomplished and what benchmarks will be used to measure job results. For example, for the job result above, the job standards might be:

• Fishing situations are correctly understood.
• All options are identified and evaluated.
• Fishing recommendations are ready when needed.

Fishing Job Objectives point the direction for employee actions by focusing job efforts on current and future fishing issues. Job objectives are written in the three-line, results-oriented structure. For example, for the job result above, a job objective might be:

SPEED-UP DECISION MAKING by

reducing time to deliver fishing recommendations by 10% by (date).

Fishing Employee Management Forms tied specifically to each fishing job description are more helpful (and legal) than generic forms used for all different kinds of jobs. Job-specific forms are used to state job qualifications, guide job interview questions, orient new employees, plan job training, and appraise job performance.

Fishing Job Qualifications are stated in the same terms used in the job description. They are not translated into generic (typically behavioral) terms. For example:

RECOMMENDS FISHING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Fishing Job Interview guide questions are inserted directly below each job result in the job description: For example:

• "What specific job responsibilities have you had in this area?"
• "Where did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "When did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "How did you go about accomplishing these responsibilities?"
• "What accomplishment in this area gave you the most pride?"
• "In this area, what were some of your biggest challenges?"
• "How did you overcome the challenges?"

The Fishing Job Orientation guide reformats the job description sequence so that job explanations, policies, protocols, processes, and procedures are logical and complete and can easily be checked off. For example:

RECOMMENDS FISHING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Here's the procedure and format we use to analyze and present fishing recommendations."

The Fishing Job Training plan guides a thorough examination of actual job knowledge, skills, and abilities as described in the job description that need improvement or that might be enhanced. For example:

RECOMMENDS FISHING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Analytical skills would be improved by enrolling in a statistical analysis class."

The Fishing Job Performance Appraisal guide is a job-specific form. It is not a universal form used for all jobs. The guide adds an appraisal scale below each job result in the job description so that attention can be drawn to each job requirement and expectation. For example:

RECOMMENDS FISHING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

__ Great! Just want we wanted.
__ We have a problem.
__ Improvement is needed.
__ Much, much more than we asked for.

Comments: _________________

Fishing Résumé Template

Potential employers want to know what a job applicant has accomplished in his/her fishing work career. They don't want to be bored with minor details. Our Résumé Template provides:

• an outline to help assemble personal background information.
• a Results-Oriented Job Description to provide the fishing job language-focused on results-needed to write an effective résumé.
• Fishing Job Objectives to orient thinking in terms of accomplishments.
• instructions on how to use a Results-Oriented Fishing Job Description and Fishing Job Objectives to express job accomplishments.

Use the fishing job description responsibility statement as a base:

RECOMMENDS FISHING ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Select the fishing job objective that fits your experience:

REDUCE COSTS 10% by

improving fishing processes.

Combine the two into a résumé statement:

Reduced costs 10% by analyzing, identifying, and recommending new fishing system controls.

Fishing Career Links

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Fishers and Fishing Vessel Operators

Read information about the training and education needed for fisher and fishing vessel operator jobs, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Food Processing Occupations

Information about the training and education needed for food processing jobs, what workers do on the job, and working conditions, earnings, expected job prospects.

emurse.com, Fishing Careers

The fishing industry, working conditions, employment, occupations, training and advancement, industry outlook, earnings.