The McCroskey Transferable Skills Program - 1998 O*NET Edition (MTSP 8.0R) is the most up-to-date, reliable, valid and powerful Transferable Skills Analysis Program available. With the advent of the McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS) O*NET Edition Programs, significantly greater precision is now available for Vocational and Rehabilitation Economic Practitioners seeking more reliable, valid analyses of employability and earning capacity.

MTSP is user friendly, logically sequential and has help screens throughout. It is very easy to install and learn to operate.

MTSP automatically calculates Pre- and Post- Profiles of Employability and Earning Capacity and has 15+ years of research attesting to its extremely High Levels o f Reliability and Validity. MTSP calculates transferable skills from 0% to 97% levels of precision, ma k ing it much more powerful than any rival programs, with 9 levels or less. SIC codes have been reintroduced to MTSP so job matches can be linked by SIC Codes to local employers using such Yellow Page Heading Business Listings as Select Phone (Pro CD, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923-4520. Ph: 1-800-99-CD-ROM).

MTSP has 788+ updated US National, State, and Local Job Bank Databases from which to choose. It has 13 Canadian (CAN + 12 Province) Job Banks.

The MTSP Premier O*NET Edition Transferable Skills Analysis (TSA) paradigm identifies clients Pre- and Post-Injury Levels of Employability, Labor Market Access, Availability, Utilization, Percent Transferable Skills and Earning Capacity in Relevant Labor Markets of Interest. MTSP even calculates your client's Pre- & Post- VQ.

MTSP has a Counselor Mode which allows all or selected jobs to be printed out in order of maximum vocational potential (by VQ) relative to the client's current profile of employability.

MTSP Vocationologist Mode allows the user to determine which job matches get printed on the final MTSP Job Profile Report.

MTSP 8.0R has multiple report style options with or without explanatory notes. Powerful Vocational Decision-Making Strategies, Special Labor Market In formation Job Demand Databases and Straight Talk with Meaningful Job Search Tips help your clients quickly identify logical job choices and improve the odds of finding and obtaining suitable work.

MTSP 8.0R O*NET Edition updates and replaces all earlier versions of the McCroskey Datamaster Program (Versions 1 through DM4p2g), as well as all MTSP Programs (Versions 6.2-8.0). On last count, MTSP and its predecessors had made their way into use in more than 40 States and are now being used in Canada.

MTSP 8.0R (with 788+ US and Canadian Job Banks), McDOT 8.0R (with its 12,775 jobs, updated DOT: DLU=1996-98) and McPLOT 8.0R (with 634+ Tests and Measures) are picking up where their predecessors left off, setting new empirical standards for the field of Vocationology.

In 1979, Three-way Inter-Rater Reliability (R_xxx=0.9944) was established for developing Residual Employability Profiles for injured or disabled workers using the VDARE Process.

In 1995, Three-way Inter-Rater Reliability (R_xxx=0.9864) was established for developing Residual Employability Profiles for injured or disabled workers across all three MVQS 7.11 Programs: McDOT, McPLOT and MTSP.

In 1997, Predictive Validity for VQ-Predicted Earning Capacity (based on 9-digit McDOT coded jobs with the same VQ level, rounded to the nearest whole VQ) was found to be extremely high level: (R_xy=0.91; SE_e=$0.50/hr).

In 1998, Predictive Validity for VQ-Predicted Earning Capacity (based on averaged 6-digit O*NET Coded sets of job VQs) was found to be very high (R_xy=0.68; SE_e=$1.01/hr).

Should you wish to order, or have any comments about future upgrading of, the McDOT, McPLOT, & MTSP 8.0R Program Package, please contact us at our website http://www.vocationology.com or at the address below: