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Measures both aptitude and interest in a completely user-friendly environment. CareerScope® takes career and educational planning to a new level. The proven career assessment and reporting system from Vocational Research Institute is a powerful, yet easy-to-use program. With more than 40 years of experience developing world-class assessment programs, VRI has designed a self-administered system that measures both aptitude and interest through valid and reliable assessment tasks. The results are instrumental in helping an individual begin the career or educational planning process.

CareerScope English w/Spanish delivers assessments in which the Interest Inventory, Numerical Reasoning, and Word Meanings items are presented in Spanish. Contact your Sales Representative for more information on this CareerScope option.

CareerScope with Audio includes a friendly voice that slowly and carefully reads the Log-in, Orientation, Instructions, Practice Items, and the Interest Inventory Items. Contact your Sales Representative for more information on this CareerScope option.

The new features in CareerScope Version 8.5 further enhance its user-friendly assessment and reporting process:

• Career Cluster/Pathway Reports: This new report combines the best features of v8.0's Panorama Symbol and Cluster reports with the simplicity of the CareerScope Summary Report format. The evaluee's interest and aptitude results are summarized, and significant Career Clusters and Pathways (as defined by the U.S. Department of Education) are identified.

• Mass Deletion of Records: You can now selectively delete entire groups of records from your CareerScope database.

• Customized File Saving: This feature allows you to create custom CareerScope databases from the records in your main database. Customized files can also be saved in an Excel format. Perfect for users who want to sort their data in unique ways.

• Group Statistics Report: This report displays statistics for a selected group of evaluees. These statistics relate to the overall aptitude scores and performance, as well as the Interest Inventory outcomes. Great for program planning by administrators.

• PowerSearch functions: The PowerSearch function (previously known as "Filters") now includes a number of pre-defined search parameters to help you identify specific groups of evaluees. You can, however, continue to create your own search definitions.

• Improved User Guide Navigation: The User Guide Bookmarks can be collapsed or expanded to provide you with a clearer picture of the topics in each chapter. Links within the User Guide give you faster and easier access to related information.

• Post-installation Printer test utility: After you have completed installation of CareerScope, you can now test whether each of your workstations is correctly printing to your default printer without needing to complete an entire assessment.

• O*NET 12.0: As always, CareerScope incorporates the most up to date information from the Department of Labor's O*NET career information database.

Interest inventory helps to target key areas of interest.
The Interest Inventory measures and identifies a user's attraction to careers that correspond to the U.S. Department of Labor's Interest Areas. These areas are:

The results from the Interest Inventory are compiled into a comprehensive Individual Profile Analysis (IPA). The IPA objectively identifies each evaluee's most significant interest area preferences. This analysis is unique to VRI assessment products.

Critical aptitudes measured by CareerScope.
The aptitudes measured by CareerScope are the most critical for today's high growth and high replacement rate occupations, as well as for the emerging careers of the 21st century. The aptitudes measured are:

CareerScope can even incorporate physical performance scores including motor coordination, finger dexterity and manual dexterity.

Easy to Administer

Designed to meet the counselor's needs. Career and guidance counselors appreciate CareerScope because results help focus the career exploration process and establish the foundation for building career development portfolios. Counselors can even customize test administration templates to control the traits assessed and the administration order. Supplemental counseling tools provide career awareness and exploration activities Assess one person or an entire group at one time. CareerScope's versatility provides additional advantages. It allows for the assessment of one or many people at the same time, and evaluees can proceed at their own comfortable pace. Minimal intervention frees up staff time. In the past, professionals supervised the assessment process from start to finish. They could do little else with their time. CareerScope gives this time back to them. The system is self-administered so counselors and staff members can pursue other duties.

Easy for the Evaluee

Designed to meet the evaluee's needs.
CareerScope is easy to use and information is presented in a friendly interactive format. The multimedia introduction, CS Intro, provides a brief introduction to the CareerScope Interest and Aptitude assessment. Evaluees quickly develop a sense of confidence in completing their assessment tasks.

Self-administered tasks take 60 minutes or less to complete.
CareerScope is self-administered and each evaluee works on a different workstation. This enables evaluees to work at their own pace and comfort level. The entire assessment process takes only 60 minutes or less to complete.

Helpful tools guide people with all levels of computer experience.
Even people with limited computer experience are quickly "up and running" on CareerScope. All that is required is minimal proficiency with a mouse and a fourth grade reading level. There is even a Mouse Practice utility for those new to using one or in need of a refresher.

CareerScope features easy-to-follow instructions, step-by-step practice items and lively animated graphics to help guide the evaluee through the assessment process. Each activity begins with exercises to familiarize users with the assessment tasks and increase their confidence before starting.

Reports You Can Really Use

CareerScope's powerful and flexible reporting system allows you to tailor output that addresses the needs of both evaluees and professional staff.

CareerScope's Assessment Profile provides the evaluee with career recommendations.
These are based on the results of the completed assessment tasks. Written in clear, concise language, the profile also explains the standards on which the recommendations are based. Recommendations can be presented in the following formats:

• Guide for Occupational Exploration and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
• O*NET 12.0 occupational database
• Department of Education's Career Cluster/Pathway system

VRI is Committed to Continuous Improvement

Since CareerScope was introduced in late 1996, VRI has enhanced the system every year based on "best practices" in the field as well as on customer feedback. Our latest version (8.5) was launched in March 2008. We are always seeking input from our customers, and if you have any comments or suggestions on new features, please contact us.

Join the Thousands Who Have Made the Best Choice:

• School Guidance & Counseling

• Special Education / Special Needs

• Career & Technical Education

• Workforce Development / Welfare to Work

• Vocational/Community Rehabilitation

• Correctional Education / Post-Corrections

Flexible to Fit the Way You Work

CareerScope^®Licensing Plan (Pay by the workstation)
Available for a single workstation, an entire lab, or anything in between, the CareerScope Licensing Plan allows unlimited use.

CareerScope^® Metered Plan (Pay by the administration)
Created for those with limited budgets that do not require unlimited use, the Metered Plan allows you to pay for your career assessments by the administration. A minimal initial investment allows unlimited installations at a single site.

PC or Laptop? Single workstation or network? CareerScope meets your requirements.
Even with this flexibility, CareerScope tasks are presented in a completely standardized format, regardless of the computer, platform, Windows^® version, or monitor.

Minimum hardware requirements to operate CareerScope.

Windows workstation specifications Pentium 500 MHz Microsoft Windows® 2000 or higher* Free memory (RAM) 256 MB for Management and/or Assessment Free hard drive space: - Management and Assessment: 119 MB, with Audio 141 MB - Management only: 12.1 MB - Assessment only: 110 MB, with Audio 131 MB

Windows network server specifications Pentium 500 MHz or higher Novell® Netware v. 6.5, Windows® 2000, Windows® 2003, or Windows® Peer to Peer 256 MB of free RAM

*If using Windows® Vista or CITRIX, consult the CareerScope FAQ's for additional information.

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