About Us
The Virtual Workforce Assessment Network (VWAN) is a database that uses state-of-the-art psychological assessments to enhance the process of matching job seekers and organizations. We also provide vocational guidance and educational program evaluation for schools by offering a customized report on students' strengths and weaknesses, along with a gap analysis if students want to pursue a specific career.
How does it work? First, job seekers or students complete a battery of psychological assessments. These assessments measure values, personality characteristics, interests, skills, and abilities. Once an individual profile of these scores has been created, organizations can search for talent and find candidates that possess relevant occupational and organizational attributes. Simultaneously, job seekers can begin a career exploration process to search occupations to which they are well matched based on vocational interests and values.
After an initial candidate search is performed, organizations may use the results of their search to invite potential candidates to complete additional targeted assessments, such as an aptitude test that is tailored to the specific knowledge, skill, and ability requirements of the job.
Please see the information below for a summary of the services offered by the Virtual Workforce Assessment Network. Alternatively, for more detailed information, click on one of the following links that is applicable to your interests: Services for Job Seekers, Services for Employers and Organizations, or Services for Educational Institutions and Students.
Services We Provide
- A comprehensive profile that describes the job seekers’ abilities, skills, interests, values, personality, and work history.
- Vocational guidance on pursuing an appropriate career based upon a fit among job seeker preferences and abilities, and the attributes supplied by occupations, and ability and skill requirements of occupations.
- Gap Analysis: If a gap exists between a desired position and a job seeker’s skill level, recommendations for development will be provided.*
- A list of the occupations that best match job seekers’ attributes.
Services for Employers and Organizations:*
- A database of potential applicants to streamline your recruitment process. Organizations may perform searches to assess the extent to which job seekers are appropriately suited for a position.
- We have a scientifically based matching process.
- Basic Searches can be performed by geographic location, skills, interests, values, and personality.
- A streamlined process for contacting potential job applicants.
- A list of validated assessments for determining final selection of applicants.
- The ability to administer custom assessments to job applicants once they meet the initial matching criteria.
Services for Educational Institutions and Students:
- A comprehensive profile of students' work-related abilities, skills, values, personality, and interests to describe your student body and assess student preparedness to enter the workforce.
- The ability to provide vocational guidance to students, or to streamline and bolster an existing vocational guidance program.
- Vocational guidance on pursuing an appropriate career based upon a fit among students' preferences and abilities, and the ability and skill requirements of occupations.
- Access to our Database Position Linkage system, which allows students to conduct searches to explore the extent to which they are appropriately suited to various occupations.
The Database Position Linkage System generates a list of potential occupations to which a student is well-matched on occupationally-relevant attributes.*
- The ability to conduct a program evaluation using our comprehensive battery of assessments.*