Improving the Fit for Students and Employers

Western Carolina University, College of Business - Pilot of Jobzology

Darrell Parker, Dean

Ed Wright, Professor of Management

James DeConinck, Professor of Marketing

The Online Guide

Self Awareness, Vocation, & Job Fit

An Education and Career Life

Compass

Background

Bryan J. Dik and Ryan D. Duffy, Templeton Press, 2012

Situational Analysis

47% StudentsNo Degree (6 Years) No Connection To Employers

$1.4TStudent Debt

1 Advisor477 Students

40 EDU Clients

Reach Students, Provide Career Guidance, Optimize

Outcomes

31Employers

Lives Impacted 100K

An Online SystemFor The Entire Education through Career Life Journey

For The Individual

• Self Discovery

• Career Path Awareness

• Job Matching

• Access to O*Net Data

• Resume / Interview help

• Employer Connections

For The School

• Data Analytics

• Student Education &

Career Modeling

• Unlimited Usage

• Integration with

C*Net

For Employers

• Access to Talent

• Connection to Students

• Student Fit to Jobs

• Student Fit to Culture

• Summary Reports

• Interview Questions

The Individual Student Experience

Self-Discovery - Assessments

• ¹Values: based on Theory of Work (Dawis & Lofquist,1984)

• ²Interests: based on Holland’s RIASEC theory of vocational

types, (Holland, 1996)

• ³Personality: based on Big Five (Barrick & Mount, 1991)

¹Dawis, Rene V., and Lloyd H. Lofquist. A psychological theory of work adjustment: An individual-differences model and its applications. University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

²Holland, J. L. (1996). Exploring careers with a typology: What we have learned and some new directions. American Psychologist, 51(4), 397.

³Low, KS D., Mijung Yoon, Brent W. Roberts, and James Rounds. "The stability of vocational interests from early adolescence to middle adulthood: a quantitative review of longitudinal studies." Psychological bulletin 131, no. 5 (2005): 713.

• Self Discovery– Values

• Achievement

• Independence

– Interests• Artistic

• Enterprising

– Personality• Openness

• Extroversion

The Individual Student Experience

Work Place Preferences – 7 Factors

1. Excellence

2. Guiding Principles

3. Collaboration

4. Innovation

5. Recognition

6. Performance

7. Stability

Job Match• Job Zone – (Zones 1-5 based on Education & Experience)

• Job Family – Similar work, skills, training, & credentials

• Industry – Based upon North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

• Match Strength – Very Strong to Weak

• Assessment Type – Interests or Values or both

• Specific Jobs – US Dept. of Labor Classification System– Add Filters – Zip Code

Additional Value Added Uses

• www.onetonline.org – link to O*Net

• Investigate choice of Major

• Career Path Exploration

• Specific Employer Match

• Craft your current job for a Better Match

Summary Report

• Full explanations of results

Recommendations

• For Employees

• For Job Seekers

• For Students

A Students Fit

• Fit to Culture

• Fit to Job

The Affiliate Employer Experience

• Access to Talent Pools

• Connection to Students

• Student Fit to Open Jobs

• Student Fit to Culture

• Summary Reports

• Interview Questions

The Affiliate Employer Experience

The Benefit

A Partnership in Education

Access to Future Talent Predictive Fit to Culture and Job

Detailed Candidates Analytics

The Advising Experience with jobZology®

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