WorkStart Employment Planning Program

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WorkStart has been providing programs and tools to organizations to assist in the employment assessment and planning process for over twelve years. Over 30,000 clients have completed WorkStart programs to date. WorkStart uses a unique, mediated instructional approach to engage clients’ in their own planning. This approach generates extensive client information to assist in the counsellor/client guidance process.
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Intake Assessments
The four assessments below are often used by organizations during the intake process to provide an initial range of information on clients’ employment readiness, work personality, strengths, skills and occupational interests

	Employment Readiness (Performance and Retention) Assessment The Employment Readiness assessment is widely used as a hiring tool to determine how productive a job applicant may be and if they are likely to stay with a job. It is highly validated as an accurate predictor of job performance and retention. The assessment can be used for an initial client needs assessment to determine the level of intervention likely needed to prepare a client for employment, or to check how ‘job ready’ a client is before beginning their job search.
	Work Personality Assessment The Personality Work Characteristics assessment is used extensively in business to assist in hiring and building successful work teams. The assessment takes 20-30 minutes to complete and provides an extensive report for clients about “who they are” and how they “function” best in the world of work. Personality factors are also linked to lists of occupations where clients may have the best opportunity for success.
	Occupational Interest Survey The Exploring Jobs program is designed to provide clients with some initial direction about jobs and careers they may be interested in. Clients complete an Interest Survey and then use results of the survey to explore various jobs and careers. The program is unique in having over 400 videos of jobs filmed in the workplace with realistic overviews of the activities and working environments for these occupations.
	Skills Survey The WorkSkills survey allows clients to see the range of skills they have and to profile them in a way which is useful to employers and to also assess against the requirements for new career or work areas they may be interested in. The survey focuses on “soft” or “essential” skills and covers 12 major skills categories and the areas in each category.

Employment Readiness (Performance and Retention) Assessment

The Employment Readiness assessment is widely used as a hiring tool to determine how productive a job applicant may be and if they are likely to stay with a job. It is highly validated as an accurate predictor of job performance and retention. The assessment can be used for an initial client needs assessment to determine the level of intervention likely needed to prepare a client for employment, or to check how ‘job ready’ a client is before beginning their job search.

Work Personality Assessment
The Personality Work Characteristics assessment is used extensively in business to assist in hiring and building successful work teams. The assessment takes 20-30 minutes to complete and provides an extensive report for clients about “who they are” and how they “function” best in the world of work. Personality factors are also linked to lists of occupations where clients may have the best opportunity for success.

Occupational Interest Survey
The Exploring Jobs program is designed to provide clients with some initial direction about jobs and careers they may be interested in. Clients complete an Interest Survey and then use results of the survey to explore various jobs and careers. The program is unique in having over 400 videos of jobs filmed in the workplace with realistic overviews of the activities and working environments for these occupations.

Skills Survey
The WorkSkills survey allows clients to see the range of skills they have and to profile them in a way which is useful to employers and to also assess against the requirements for new career or work areas they may be interested in. The survey focuses on “soft” or “essential” skills and covers 12 major skills categories and the areas in each category.

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