Job Matching Diagnostics for Assessing Soft Skills and
Job Matching Diagnostics for Assessing Soft Skills and Work Role Preferences (DAISS) LEONARDO DA VINCI Transfer of innovation Vilma Tubutiene NGO Social innovations centre, Siauliai, Lithuania
• Purpose of the DAISS (1, 2) project was based on the export of an innovative product Self Awareness Assessment & Job Matching Tool conceived & developed in the UK by transferring, adapting & translating it into 7 European countries & languages. • The DAISS Project Coordinator was Apricot Training Management (UK). • Partners from Bulgaria, Italia, Spain, Greek, Portugal, Romania, Lithuania. http: //daiss-project. eu/
• Based on the well-established psychometric testing system of workplace behavior (DISC), and uniquely incorporating an assessment of learning styles, the Self Awareness diagnostic tool is validated for use with adults and young people by the University of Cambridge. • Self Awareness Assessment & Job Matching Tool has been designed to increase the understanding of the role of ‘soft skills’ in employment – for both employers and job seekers.
• It uses the principles of DISC (Dominance, Inducement, Submission and Compliance) Personality Profiling in order to analyze and feedback on the Soft Skills of employability learners or ‘candidates’. • The tool gathers and analyses participant responses and then uses an innovative ‘matching’ component to align employer requirements with the ‘soft skills’, learning styles and work preferences of adults seeking work. • The ultimate goal is to produce a best fit solution for both employers and job seekers.
We use the Diagnostic tool: • As supporting tool for recognising personal strengths and weaknesses at Career management course (Siauliai University, LT) • As part of training course for social workers and their assistants (Edukaciniai projektai, LT) • As recruitment tool for finding the appropriate candidacy (eg. kindergarten “PASAKA”, LT) • As a tool for identifying and utilizing the employees’ potential of soft skills. . .
Participants said: • Soft skills are usually difficult to define; the Diagnostic Tool gave me a clear frame about it from a professional perspective. It is possible to have a clear and common framework with the student/job seeker about resources and areas of improvement by focusing on personal, individual development plans for students. • The Diagnostic Tool reinforced point of view about the importance of soft skills in finding/keeping a job; increased accuracy of recommending a candidate for a job profile or specific vacancy and accuracy in matching job requirements with individuals.
Participants said: • It improves the development of personal CV both in presentation and as a professional profile concerning emotional sphere, how they could join the labour market; • It could be integrated in educational and training programmes as a support tool. Used in group training processes to experiment the results of tests through role-play and reflections; to prepare students to deal with on-the-job training.
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