Your Local Career Center has several tools to help you in career guidance and aptitude assessment. Two of our most-used assessments are Choices and WorkKeys.
Choices
Easily connect interests and skills with occupations, college majors and school information. North America’s preferred career information delivery system, Choices® CD Edition is education and career planning software designed to help career agency clients build meaningful plans. Validated assessments empower more confident career choices by building self-knowledge, while comprehensive occupation and education databases support meaningful planning.
- Learn about yourself
- Find occupations that fit
- Provides connections to training programs
- Find schools related to your occupation
- Provides suggestion for financial aid
- Provides a place to build your electronic and printed portfolio
Personalized planning becomes more effective than ever before with Guideways that provide guidance relevant to clients' objectives by suggesting next steps based on what they've started or completed. Tools such as the resume builder, letter writer and job search activities help clients prepare for their next transition. All work and plans are saved in Choices’ electronic portfolio.
WorkKeys Missouri Career Readiness
The purpose of the Missouri Career Readiness Certificate (MoCRC) is to connect Missouri businesses with skilled workers who demonstrate proficiency in basic workplace skills. It also connects workers with businesses to fill jobs appropriate for their skills. The MoCRC is a certificate in which the WorkKeys assessment is used to identify a person’s skill levels in three specific areas: Reading for Information, Locating Information, and Applied Mathematics. These three areas have been consistently identified by employers nationwide as being essential in hiring new employees and for advancement of workers already on the job.
WorkKeys is based on two elements:
- A job profile, in which a trained profiler analyzes a specific job and determines what level of skill sets are needed to perform the job.
- An assessment of the job-seeker, given at either the local career center or community college, depending on the arrangements in the area.
There are three levels for the MoCRC: Gold, Silver, and Bronze, and they are issued based on WorkKeys assessment. The individuals assessment scores are entered in the Division of Workforce Development's case management system to assist career center staff in finding a good job match for the client. The MoCRC also influences career center service delivery: someone wishing to reach a higher level can be provided training, as appropriate, to increase skills and improve matches with jobs in the area.
