McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS)
6th Edition Primers
By
William
E. Wattenbarger, Ph.D. and
Billy
J. McCroskey, Ph.D.
The three MVQS 6th Edition Programs (McCroskey, 2002) collectively represent a unique, unparalleled approach to matching people with their best job choices. They are based upon the objective performance demands that jobs require of a worker and upon the objective performance abilities of the worker. It's a simple, intuitive idea: a good job for a person is one where the person has all of the abilities the job requires.
The first challenge is to measure job demands and worker abilities in comparable terms. MVQS does this by using the concepts and adapted measurement scales of Job Analysis to define the 24 most vocationally significant categories referred to as traits. Then, these same categories, or traits, are applied to worker abilities, in exactly the same measurement terms. In this way they become compare-able. A worker can do any job, where his or her ability meets or exceeds the job's requirement on every vocationally significant trait.
MVQS helps the user to develop the profile of abilities for the worker and compare it to the job demand profiles of vocationally significant worker trait requirements for each reasonably frequently-hired-for-job in a specific labor market.
MVQS output result is a list of reasonable jobs, reasonably available in that market, which are within the worker's abilities profile. Obviously, the worker may have more transferable skills for some job matches, more occupational values and needs in common with those reinforced by some of the job matches, more vocational interest and personality needs in common with those reinforced by some of the job matches, and greater training potential for some job matches than others on the output list. That’s why other sorted report outputs are included.