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What is TORQ™?
Empowering O*Net™
Enhancing LMI
The System
What can TORQ™ do for you?
A Tradition of Excellence
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"Adding TORQ™ to our LMI toolbox has a multiplier effect on the tools, data, and analysis we already offer. The value we add to our customers just went up by a power of ten."

Martin E. Morrow
Chief Operating Officer
Indiana Department of Workforce Development

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"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."

- Ivan Chermayeff

What is TORQ™?

TORQ™ – the Transferable Occupation Relationship Quotient – is an analytical tool developed by Workforce Associates, Inc., that links occupations based on the abilities, skills, and knowledge required by workers a vast number of occupations. TORQ™ reduces the complexity of transferring from one occupation to another – The Transferable Occupation Relationship Quotient is one single convenient measurement that defines "transferability" between occupations. Based on the abilities, skills, and knowledge from the vast ONET™ database from the Department of Labor, TORQ™ can assess any transition with just one number. It’s that simple. TORQ^TM expands the notion of career pathways into a interconnected web of possibilities based on the factors that really matter for career mobility – not a specific job that someone is doing or has done, but what someone is capable* of doing. Back to Top
Empowering O*Net™
ONET™ – the Occupational Information Network – contains detailed evaluations of a variety of attributes of a database of 801 job titles in the US, covering all major types of employment. From this vast database, TORQ™ sweeps in a comprehensive set of measurements of each occupation’s attributes in the vital categories of abilities, skills, and knowledge. Based on this set of attributes from ONET™, TORQ™ generates a single number between 0 and 100, measuring the transferability of workers from one occupation to another. Back to Top
Enhancing LMI
TORQ™ plugs directly into your very own local labor market information (LMI), so all the output from the TORQ™ system matches up completely with your own, giving you tools to make LMI even more useful and powerful for workforce development, economic development, and career exploration. The possibilities are as vast as your data. And with the new O*NET™ 13 occupational database now released, TORQ™’s occupational analysis will be as relevant and up-to-date as your LMI. Back to Top
	Live Online Analysis • Powerful analysis is at your fingertips 24 hours a day with the ASK TORQ™ online system. • The ASK TORQ™ interface is easy to navigate and control. • Flash-enabled graphics make interpreting TORQ™ data simple and attractive. • Save your searches and switch between analytical tools with the click of a button. Back to Top
	Generate Custom Reports • ASK TORQ™ lets you choose the data and analysis that fits your reporting needs. • Print to PDF or directly to hard copy. Back to Top
	LMI provides the horsepower! • TORQ™ analysis is integrated with your local labor market information. • Local wages and employment figures make your reports current, relevant, and specifically useful for your region. Back to Top
The System
TORQ™ isn’t just a number, – it’s a comprehensive system that works with your local labor market information to create powerful analytical tools. With TORQ™ you can: Evaluate transfers from one job to another in detail. Search the labor market area for sources of workers qualified to fill critical job openings. Explore promotion possibilities and career pathways from any occupation in the ONET™ database. Analyze* the occupations in your area with the top pay, highest growth potential, and other statistics. Back to Top
What can TORQ™ do for you?
TORQ™ helps to solve complex problems relevant to economic and workforce development in communities, states, and the entire nation. It can be used by: "Rapid response" teams helping workers deal with mass layoffs. Workforce researchers evaluating the condition of an area’s workforce, including workforce shortages, or gaps in critical skills. Career counselors and staffing agencies looking for a powerful tool to match the right candidates with the best jobs. Economic developers who want to show off the skills and talents of their workforce to attract and retain vital businesses. Education and training providers who need targeted programs to serve rapidly changing market demand. Site selectors looking for the most capable talent for their clients’ skills demands. Workforce development professionals who want to map progressive "career pathways" based on TORQ™-powered networks of occupations. Back to Top
A Tradition of Excellence
TORQ™ was developed by Richard W. Judy, co-author of Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century and founder of Workforce Associates, Inc. – and once again on the cutting edge of trends in talent development for the 21st century. Back to Top
See TORQ™ for yourself!
To arrange a live, online demonstration of the TORQ™ system, call Workforce Associates, Inc. at 317-841-0133, or email us at TORQ@WorkforceAssociates.com.