Job Matching Diagnostics for Assessing Soft Skills and Work Role Preferences on a multilingual and cultural basis

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Aims: To develop an international, web-enabled psychometric tool that, uniquely, will assessa combination of a person’s soft skills, learning styles and work role preferences. It will bemade available in 6 different European languages and business cultures.It will aid employers to define the soft skills needed for a work role and job seekers tounderstand & articulate their soft skills and aptitudes and, through its job-matching tool, builda structured comparison of the two. Used with a qualifications/experience assessment, it willgreatly enhance both recruitment and development processes.Context: EU unemployment currently stands at 23m (UK +2m) with more public sector jobcuts looming as governments implement measures to control debt. In the UK a person movingfrom unemployment to a job earning £24k per year is worth + £11k to UK government (intaxes and benefits). This innovative tool addresses the need employers express for recruitingpeople with the ‘right’ soft skills & attitudes so reducing staff churn & maximisingproductivity.Innovation:- assessment of learning styles, entrepreneurial potential and ‘approaches to newchallenges’ is a combination currently unique in psychometric platforms- matching the soft skills of a work role with soft skills and employability developmentprogrammes – again unique- transnational nature of the tool enabling organisations and candidates to completeassessments in their own language;- outputs that reflect differing EU cultural & business needs.Benefits: Significant societal and economic benefits in use of the tool to recruit the “rightperson for right job”; enhancing the economic prosperity and sustainable employment forindividuals, employers and economic communities.Exploitation: Initially through large group of existing UK/EU contacts.Summary: A validated multilingual/cultural webhosted international psychometric assessmenttool for European use in recruitment & employability.