Abstract: The influences of changing social and organizational context on the nature of work and law issues have brought great challenges to traditional job analysis. This article first introduced future-oriented job analysis and strategic job analysis, which give more concern to future demands of work and organization specific requirements. Then studies on the relationship between job analysis and competency modeling was illustrated, suggesting that competency modeling and job analysis need to be combined. After that, the authors reviewed the studies on sources of variance in job analysis ratings and new psychometric theories used in these studies. Lastly, as an example of new job analysis system, the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) developed by U.S. Department of Labor was briefly addressed and new study directions in this field were suggested

Key words: Job Analysis, Competency, Generalizability Theory, O*NET