| Appropriate assessment is the foundation for making informed and
realistic Career Decisions. Valid assessment of vocational aptitudes
and interests forms the nucleus of successful Welfare Reform
programs, WIA services, Vocational Education training programs,
and School-To-Career programs. All Work Force Readiness
efforts better serve their customers when they incorporate
assessment in their programs. When workers and employers both possess
information concerning vocationally relevant strengths and needs,
they can target specific skills training and provide remedial
services needed to ensure appropriate vocational selection and
placement, a fundamental requirement in building a quality workforce. Vocational assessment produces better placement in training programs
and yields higher program completion rates. For Schools, it also
increases enrollment in vocational programs by making students
aware of vocational options based on their occupational interests
and aptitudes.
Aptitude & Interest Assessment
• One-Stop
Service Delivery • Career Counseling • School-To-Career
Transition • Welfare
Reform • Corrections •
- CareerScope
- Loaded on notebook computers, CareerScope offers a completely
mobile assessment. In a computer lab setting it can simultaneously
assess as many evaluees as you have computers.
In the school setting, taking assessment to the schools is
one way to catch up with no-shows who were scheduled for assessments
at a center. This also makes it possible to offer vocational
assessment to a wider range of students, such as all eighth
graders or all over-aged sixth graders.
- CareerScope
Interest Inventory (CSII) - an easy-to-use,
affordable interest assessment that conforms to the National Career
Development Association’s guidelines. The CareerScope® Interest
Inventory results are critical in beginning the career or educational
planning process.
- VRII
- Interest assessment available in paper and pencil (Spanish
and English) and scannable response forms (English only).
- PIC
- The Pictorial Inventory of Careers. Scenes depict
actual work settings to elicit responses from "strongly like"
to "strongly dislike. Test results pinpoint strong
interests, dislikes, and, most importantly, areas of little knowledge.
- VIP
- A Comprehensive Vocational Personality Assessment.
VIP is a computerized personality assessment that provides individuals
with a better awareness of their interpersonal strengths and working
style preferences as well as the career options best suited to
those strengths and styles
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Academic Assessment
- Achievement
Technologies offers on-line assessment and instruction
for adolescents and adults in academic and work skills.
- The
SkillsTutor™ web-based program offers online assessments
and instruction to help adolescents and adults master essential
academic and work skills.
- SkillsBank5 is
a CD based assessment and instruction for Adolescents and
adults to review,
refresh and revive core basic skills while
increasing test performance.
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to top Transferable Skills Analysis
Transferable Skills analysis is, indeed,
analysis rather than true assessment. That is to say, it
does not perform a testing function - but it does yield results
one
typically expects from assessment. It matches a person to appropriate occupations.
• Job
Counseling and Development • One-Stop
Service Delivery • Career Counseling
and Decision-Support • Career
Path Development and Exploration • Work
Evaluation and Adjudication • Labor
Exchange Service Support • School-To-Work
Transition • Human Resource Management • Access
to Labor Market Information •
- OASYS & OASYS
JobMatch - match
a person’s skills and
abilities to occupations using an Ability Profile and transferable
skills analysis. It also compares a job seeker’s profile
to any occupation to determine how closely they match. Using
the occupation-to-industry matrix for finding employers likely
to hire is also included. The Counselor component also interacts
with the job referral process and enables review of the Job
Seeker tracking records.
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to top Pre-employment Screening
Using the same transferable
skills methodology, you can describe the skills and abilities needed
for a specific job and look for likely candidates.
- OASYS JobMatch
- matches a person's skills and abilities to the specific
requirements of a posted job opening. The Job Developer’s
Workstation provides for entry and management of information about
employers and their jobs. This is the "Job-Bank"
portion of OASYS. Here’s where an open job order is selected
for searching the job seeker files to find best suited candidates
for referral purposes. The job developer component also
includes access to the tracking function. OASYS allows the user
to describe a local job with up to three DOT job titles, then
modify each worker trait variable to reflect that job’s unique
requirements or handicapped accommodations.
- Employment
Inventory (EI) - the Job Readiness Assessment.
EI assesses generic work behaviors to identify people most
likely to become productive and successful employees -- and those
who need help. EI uses 4 assessment scales: performance,
tenure, customer service, and sales.
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to top Self-Assessment & Counseling
The ability of job seekers to make
and act upon employment decisions is influenced by their readiness
for decision making and by the barriers they face in making choices.
As a result, some job seekers need more assistance than others
to make effective use of the increasing amounts of information
available.
The emerging models of service delivery
for maximizing the use of staff resources in meeting the needs
of job seekers involve three tiers of service: (1) self-help services,
(2) brief staff-assisted services, and (3) individual case-managed
services.
Self-help services have become a key
element of one-stop service delivery. Information disseminated
in the self-service mode needs to be designed with that specific
purpose in mind. Resources provided in self-service mode need to
be easy to use.
The following Job Search skills programs
and Job Market Research tools are designed to enhance a customer's
chances for employability.
- Employability
& Work Maturity -
Employability
Skills has been used by hundreds of agencies and schools throughout
the United States and Puerto Rico for more than twenty years. The
one hundred thirty-four(134) lessons are designed to allow older
youth and adults with limited reading skills to develop the skills
that are critical to the process of selecting, obtaining, and maintaining
employment.
- Career Decision Making -
twenty-one (26) lessons that teach
how to make career decisions
by relating job requirements to personal
characteristics and priorities.
- Job Seeking Skills -
nineteen (19) lessons that teach students how to conduct
a job search, complete
job applications, write resumes and job search letters,
perform appropriately in job interviews, and follow-up
after job interviews
- Work Maturity Skills -
forty-two (42) lessons that teach how to perform
in a
manner
that will
help to be successful at work. Emphasis is
placed
on understanding the employer's perspective on
job performance in relation to the world of work.
- Worker
Effectiveness Skills - consists of 41
lessons and covers the topics of Teamwork, Leadership,
Building Self-Esteem, Problem-Solving and Responsible
Behavior
- Employment
Inventory - Job Readiness Assessment - assesses
generic work behaviors to identify people most likely to
become productive and successful employees -- and those who
need help - using four scales: performance, tenure,
customer service, and sales.
- OASYS JobMatch - Job Seekers's Workstation -
enables job seekers (clients/customers) to use parts of OASYS without
the assistance of a counselor. It is intended for use by
organizations who want job seekers to play a greater role
in employment activities. It contains personal data entry,
occupational exploration, career path development and job
searching functions. This component can also be used by technicians
who could be responsible for entering some of the above data
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to top Curriculum Based Vocational Assessment
Broad-based exploration in conjunction with
curriculum-based vocational assesment is vital in the middle school
years. Vocational assessment, particularly for special education
students, needs to be a continual process and should be related
to the vocational curriculum preparing students for work.
- PAES (The Practical Assessment
Exploration System) gives special needs students
in grades 7-12 an opportunity to explore a wide range of hands-on
skills which they will encounter in practical classes, vocational
classes, and in employment.
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to top Work Sample Assessment
Work sample assessment validates trait
factors discovered in aptitude and screening tests, allowing the
client/customer to apply those traits to more realistic job settings.
- VITAS - VRI's
customers continue to rely on this in-depth broad based multi-trait
work sample system that sets the standard in comparing work quality
and production speed against adult and/or adolescent norm bases.
- Talent Assessment Program
(TAP) - Helping tap into the work potential of every
individual.
TAP is a portable and durable battery of 10 action tests using
tools and materials of the trades to measure an individual's functional
aptitudes
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- WorkPlace
Mentor is
a comprehensive system for planning and conducting effective
community-based assessments and attaining a gainful employment
for individuals with special needs or limited work histories.
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