Acronyms, Orders & Compliance, Oh My
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These two DCI services remain mandatory for federal contractors even after the rescission of Executive Order 11426.

What are the Section 503 and VEVRAA AAPs?

100

This DCI service analyzes compensation systems using regression and other statistical techniques to identify disparities and provide compliance-focused recommendations.

What is pay equity analysis consulting?

100

This DCI service often links KSAOs to tasks and is foundational for developing effective and legally defensible selection procedures.

What is job analysis?

100

Through qualitative review, DCI examines policies, ERGs, and programs to identify potential compliance concerns under non-discrimination principles to provide this service.

What is a DEI Risk Audit?

100

In Elf, Buddy’s favorite food combination involves spaghetti topped with this.

What is maple syrup?

200

This service is a rebranding of traditional AAP work and includes analyses of personnel activity and external workforce data to provide a comprehensive assessment of the organization's non-discrimination efforts.

What are NDEPs (Non-Discrimination in Employment Plans)?

200

This statistical approach demonstrates whether hiring, promotions, or terminations differ by group status.

What is an adverse impact analysis?

200

DCI evaluates whether a hiring tool predicts job performance in this type of validation study.

What is criterion-related validation?

200

After an EEO or OFCCP trial or settlement, DCI’s I/O psychologists and labor economists work as jointly-appointed experts to provide oversite to ensure organizations meet the requirements of the agreement as part of this DCI service.

What is post-litigation support?

200

In Gremlins, the holiday chaos begins when these small creatures are exposed to this prohibited condition, causing them to multiply.

What is water / feeding after midnight?

300

DCI helps clients with this requirement ensuring job postings reach qualified veterans.

What is the Mandatory Job Listing service?

300

DCI’s consulting includes building compensation philosophies, pay bands, and job architecture under this service.

What is compensation consulting?

300

This DCI service assesses algorithmic hiring tools for fairness, transparency, and legal risk.

What is a bias audit or algorithmic assessment review?

300

This DCI team member(s) provides strategic case advice, custom scientific studies, and recommendations behind the scenes to attorneys handling employment discrimination lawsuits.

What is a consulting expert?

300

In It’s a Wonderful Life, the famous line goes, “Every time a bell rings…”

What is an angel gets his wings?

400

This DCI service handles federal contractor veteran workforce reporting on behalf of clients.

What is VETS-4212 reporting service?

400

Via this service, DCI matches your organization’s job families, levels, and descriptions to market data and develops a custom guide for correct job placement

What is benchmarking?

400

This DCI service, known by several naming conventions, evaluates whether resume-match tools perform as intended and align with human expectations.

What is an Overlap Analysis, a Tracing Study, or an Algorithm and Expert Alignment Study?

400

This DCI professional provides  case strategy and expert opinions in class action employment lawsuits through reports and provides testimony at deposition and to judges or juries.

What is a testifying expert?

400

In the 1983 film, A Christmas Story, Ralphie Parker dreams of receiving this as his Christmas gift, despite repeated warnings it’s “too dangerous.”

What is A Red Ryder BB Gun?

500

This required report summarizes workforce demographics by job category and is due annually to the EEOC.

What is the EEO-1 Component 1 report?

500

DCI helps employers in all 27 EU member states navigate this complex policy by tracking timelines, reporting rules, and local requirements.

What is EU Pay Transparency consulting?

500

This DCI custom assessment can help employers reduce turnover in high volume, entry-level jobs

What is a Retention Profile/Biodata Tool?

500

Various DCI services are relevant to this state regulation amendment, which became active on Oct 1 2025 and codified UGESP.

What is the Cali Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)?

500

In Home Alone, the two burglars, Harry and Marv, are known by this humorous nickname, coined by Marv as their "calling card".

Who are the Wet Bandits?

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