Used by thousands of career management professionals and over a million clients since 1987, SkillScan is the leading skills assessment program. Helping clients identify and label their skill preferences - information critical for career decision making, résumé writing, interviewing and skill development. When used in a corporate setting, SkillScan promotes employee career planning. This translates into improved productivity, satisfaction and retention for your company. When used as part of an overall career planning program SkillScan promotes self awareness and expands the number of career paths to be explored. Here's how it works:
SkillScan determines skill competencies - skills critical to job performance; individuals select preferred skills; skills that capitalize on personal strengths:
- prepare a Personal Skill Profile of preferred skills grouped into areas of marketability
- identify a variety of skill sets to expand the range of career opportunities
- record skill needs for future training and development.
The popular SkillScan card sort system offers:
Unique Colour-Coded Deck: 64 cards define each skill and relate it to one of seven skill categories. The colour-coded categories help clients to value their strengths and develop awareness of the transferability of their skills to different work functions.
Personal Skills Profile - Reported preferences create an immediate picture of skill strengths, likes and dislikes. This profile becomes a roadmap for career development planning.
Informative Facilitator's Manual CD - Great for both new and experienced facilitators, this CD guide provides numerous reproducible exercises, illustrations and hand-outs to help clients move from insight to action. Highlights include:
- Skill Wheel and Skill Reference Guide - Identifies more precise skill functions
- Integrating Results - Links results to standard interest and personality inventories
- Practical Strategies - Provides tools for career change and self-marketing.
SkillScan can be used on its own or integrated with interest or type assessment inventories.
