Job Evaluation

Over 50 employers throughout the Twin Cities serve as evaluation sites for vocational evaluators to gather information about an individual’s work interests, skills, behaviors and tolerances while performing a job. In turn, evaluators provide each person with valuable feedback on work habits, work skills and physical capabilities. This evaluation can also include assessments of achievement, aptitude, interest, dexterity, learning styles and work samples.

Evaluations reveal:

  • Intellectual functioning, academic ability, psychomotor ability, aptitudes, learning style and vocational interest
  • Current level of employability – competitive or noncompetitive
  • Barriers to employment
  • Assets and limitations in the work setting

Evaluations help:

  • Streamline career interests
  • Set realistic job goals
  • Explore career paths
  • Reveal an individual’s current abilities

Evaluators address:

  • Potential for vocational training
  • Occupations
  • Accommodations
  • Service needs such as, medical, therapeutic, work evaluation/work adjustment, psychological, etc.

Assessments include:

  • Interest identifies an individual’s career path interests in order to determine vocational goals or general vocational direction.
  • Achievement measures past learning, including acquired academic skills from past educational and/or vocational experiences. Reading, spelling and mathematics are also measured.
  • Aptitude measures a person’s potential for learning a particular skill or knowledge base when they are given an opportunity for additional education, training or experience.
  • Motor Dexterity measures fine and gross motor skills.