To best determine an individual’s current status in his/her career planning continuum, YWCA staff utilize a number of formal and informal career planning tools and assessments.  The following are some examples of these tools:

• Self Inventory for Job Skills: self management, functional, work content skills; administered one on one with Job Developer;

• WISCareers:  interest inventory and transferrable skills; http://www.wiscareers.wisc.edu/Default.asp

• Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE): reading and math skill level; administered in group setting with Assessment Specialist;

• Proveit! Analytical Skills-Analytical Reasoning:  evaluates cognitive skills traditionally considered as analytical; administered in group setting with Assessment Specialist;

• Proveit! Basic Reading Comprehension-Reading for Information:  basic reading comprehension that examines ability to draw important information from written material; administered in group setting with Assessment Specialist;

• Proveit! Job title assessments:  with more than 700 job titles available, this tool rates the individual’s competency level on a given job compared to a national average of employees doing the job currently.