The Employment Readiness Scale (ERS)

The ERS is an online tool providing a quick, comprehensive initial employability assessment.

The Employment Readiness Scale (ERS) is an online assessment tool that provides a quick, comprehensive initial employability assessment. The development of the Employment Readiness Scale™ resulted from a pilot project launched under the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Development Agreement in 1998. The research and development process was undertaken by Valerie Ward (Valerie G. Ward Consulting Ltd.) and Dr. Dorothy Riddle (Service-Growth Consultants Inc.).

Next generation tools and processes for career and life planning - CareerDNA

The concept of "Career DNA" is being used to develop an interactive tool to enable users to identify their unique work environments and occupational pathways.

The career model developed consists of five essential building blocks: work type and temperament; work personality; occupational interests; work-related values; and most centrally, SkillsDNA.  The configuration of the user’s energised skills into a map of the work functions and roles that would be most enjoyable and satisfying. Building on the powerful work of Bernard Haldane, John Crystal and Richard Bolles, and taking their insights and procedures several steps further, users organically grow a graphic picture of what ideal work should look like to them. Combining SkillsDNA with interests, type and temperament, values and personality, the user is then able, using a 2000+ career and job taxonomy of the American world of work, map which occupations they would best be suited for or are the most appropriate for them to explore.

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The Employment Readiness Scale (ERS)

Next generation tools and processes for career and life planning - CareerDNA