WHAT IS ERS?
The Employment Readiness Scale™ (ERS) is an online assessment tool that helps clients identify their strengths and challenges in becoming employment-ready, measures their changes over time, and provides organizations with roll-up reports for program planning and evaluation.
The ERS offers benefits to clients, agencies that provide employment services, and sponsors who fund the services. The ERS is designed to provide a comprehensive employment readiness assessment in 20 minutes, with a detailed feedback report and an action planning tool. Clients can retake the ERS several times to measure their progress.
Roll-up reports across clients help organizations identify the programs clients need, demonstrate client improvement, and assess the effectiveness of specific interventions. This roll-up capability provides an objective input for program planning and Sponsor/Government accountability reporting. The ERS is available in English, French, and Spanish.
We encourage you to review articles that relate to the Employment Readiness Scale. These include topics ranging from the background and research on the ERS to addressing client needs, making a business case to get funding and many more and can be accessed using the link below. Visit the FAQ page for answers to frequently asked questions.
If you require additional information on the ERS please feel free to contact ERS or one of our affiliates.
ANALYSIS REPORT
- Areas where clients score is already strong in:
- Employability Factors
- Soft Skills
- Types of stress they are facing that could interfere with work life
- The priority factors to address
- Suggestions for strengthening any Soft Skills
- Obtain statistical information in a graphical format on how your agency is performing overall in supporting clients develop soft skills and improve on employability factors
- Compare performance against similar cohorts nationally
- Measure the effectiveness of programs by analysing ERS results pre and post interventions
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AGGREGATE REPORTS
- In addition to providing feedback for individual users, the ERS also automatically compiles a series of roll-up or aggregate reports once at least 10 users have taken the Scale. Those reports include:
- Who Are Our Clients? – Provides demographic information on clients.
- Where Are Our Clients Starting From? – Provides a summary of client needs.
- What Challenges Are Our Clients Facing? – Lists the percent of clients reporting the top five challenges.
- How Have Our Clients Changed? – Provides the percent of clients becoming “employment ready.”
- How Effective Are Interventions? – Provides program evaluation data for specific interventions.
- Which Clients? – Lists the clients that need help on a particular factor.