Tools for Job Seekers!!

• My Next Move The new user-friendly electronic career exploration tool launched by the U.S. Department of Labor on February 3, 2011. This resource helps those who are not sure which career choice best fits their interests.
• CareerScope Self-administered* interest inventory and aptitude assessment. Assists with career planning. Can be utilized to help individuals determine if they have the aptitude for a particular occupation. Entire process takes approximately 1 hour. * Self-administered assessment accessible only in the One-Stop Centers – not available by Internet.
• SCOIS Used for obtaining information on various occupations. Features Multimedia/Full-Motion Occupation Videos for some occupations. Also features a self-administered assessment*, college search and financial aid information.
• O*NET Replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). O*Net has information for more than 950 occupations based on the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System. Allows users to create a list of skills they have or plan to acquire, find occupations that match most of their skills, generate lists of up to 10 occupations with user-identified knowledge areas, skills, work environments, and work activities, creates a summary of the most important characteristics of an occupation, and provides a list of characteristics associated with a selected occupation.
• Labor Market Information Find information on what occupations are hot in your area and across the nation.

• Quintessential Careers Help plan your future with these self-assessment and career discovery tests.
• Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential (MAPP). MAPP is a world-class personal assessment that takes 15 minutes to complete. MAPP identifies your true motivations toward work and allows you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.

• WinWay Resume. Resume writing program. Assists individuals in writing resumes through use of templates. Best for basic resumes and first time resume creators. Can be more challenging than using Microsoft Word for advanced users who want to significantly modify their resume format.
• Use MS Word to Write Your Resume. You can access MS Word on a One-Stop Center computer to write your resume.
• Links to online Resume Writing Guides
• www.careerbuilder.com
• www.bestjobsusa.com
• www.sconestop.org

• TABE - Diagnostic assessment to quickly determine basic skills for training and employment or to determine readiness to take the GED.
• Aztec - An educational software solution to teach real-life academic and workforce skills offering an easy-to-use, self-paced modular learning style.
• GED 1120 - A flexible tool to prepare for the GED test. Three ways to practice available:
1. Review Content – guided practice with immediate feedback and hints;
2. Pretest – scored practice without hints or explanations;
3. Simulated Test – timed, scored practice without hints or explanations.
• Mavis Beacon - Self-paced keyboarding/typing learning tool for beginning to advanced users. For beginning, can be used to teach basic keyboarding. For advanced, can be used to increase accuracy and speed.

WorkKeys® is a Flexible System of Components which includes:

• Job Profiling – Determining the basic skills – Determining the basic skills required for individual jobs and occupational careers
• Assessment – Measuring the basic skills that individuals can apply to workplace situations
• Training – Curriculum guidelines from ACT and ACT Level 1 publishers designed to improve an individual’s skills so that they can be successful in jobs of their choice
• Research – ACT’s extensive research and validation has resulted in a tool that, when properly used, is EEOC compliant and legally defensible.

The WorkKeys® assessments present workplace situations, reading materials, problems and messages for the employee to respond to and/or resolve. Each assessment is constructed with a number of levels, with each successive level more complex than the previous. The assessments include:

• Business Writing
• Listening
• Reading for Information
• Writing
• Applied Mathematics
• Applied Technology
• Locating Information
• Observation
• WorkKeys® Readiness
• Spanish WorkKeys® (Applied Mathematics, Applied Technology, Locating Information, Reading for Information)

Click here for WorkKeys Assessment Pricing.

WorkKeys® Job Profiling
Job profiling is the process of determining the basic skills that a person needs to do a specific job successfully. This task is performed by an ACT-trained and licensed profiler. The profiler meets with actual employees, subject matter experts, and others involved in the job assignment. Together, this team develops a list of task required to perform the assignments. This task list is then analyzed for the basic skills that are required to perform each task. The team sorts the tasks and skills by the skill area and the skill level (or complexity) within each skill area. The result is a job profile. The profile lists the basic skill areas that are most important in the job, and the amount of each skill that is required to perform the job successfully. The job profile may include only some of the skill areas, which are most important to performing the job correctly.

For more information on WorkKeys Profiling please contact:
Hy Small at 864-467-8085 or email him at hsmall@greenvillecounty.org

For more information on WorkKeys® Assessments please contact:
Charlene Gilliam at 864-467-3320 or email her at cgilliam@greenvillecounty.org

Or you may visit: http://www.workreadysc.com/

WIN is a great tool to prepare to take the WorkKeys Assessment. It allows you to practice on sample questions and provides appropriate remediation.

To access WIN, at not cost, please visit: http://sccommerce.wincshost.com/default.php. You will need a user name and password; this may be obtained by calling WIA at 864-467-7220.

Research Employers
Where to obtain this information:

• Libraries
• Company annual reports
• Company visits
• Informational interviews
• Observation of employees leaving work
• Current/former employees
• Newspapers
• Business organizations (Chamber of Commerce, etc.)
• Industry directories
• Internet (company home page)
• Local One-Stop Career Center

Using the information in your job search:

• Determine which job openings sound interesting.
• Conduct your research using the tips in this JobShop Brief.
• Complete an information sheet for the job and the company for each job opening that interests you.
• Compare this information with your interests, knowledge, skills, abilities, salary/fringe requirements and other needs.
• Decide whether it is worth your time to apply for this job.
• If the answer is "no", don't waste your time.
• If the answer is "yes", go for it!

• South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW)
• The Greenville News
• NationJobs - Chamber of Commerce
• Greenville County Job Openings
• City of Greenville
• Goodwill Industries
• Greenville County Schools
• Greenville Hospital System
• St. Francis Bon Secours Hospital System