The CMQ was developed in 1989 to provide organizations with a powerful tool that can be used to collect job-analysis information that address many different HR functions. Our downloads section has a number of research reports and white-papers that describe the development of the CMQ.

The major uses to which business organizations put the CMQ are summarized below, and described in more detail in the what-it-does section. Use our online order form to purchase a license to use CMQ in your business.

• Develop or revise job title systems to reduce within-title variability.
   
• Derive market-sensitive compensation systems using verifiable work activities to define the compensable factors of jobs.
   
• Predict worker-trait requirements for jobs using statistical models based on a job's profile of general work activities (GWAs), or using traditional "content-" or "construct-validity" strategies to identify predictors.
   
• Produce job descriptions that allow meaningful comparisons between different jobs on a "common-metric" of GWA dimensions.
   
• Identify career-paths within your organization based on profile-matching using GWA dimensions.
   
• Search our national database of job analysis results to find which titles show the best match to a given job in your organization.