MVQS-Primer 2: Job-Person Profiling and Matching

Based the Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment[1], essential to this process is knowledge of:

 1)       The typical Worker Trait Requirements/Demands Profile, Occupational Values and Needs Reinforcers available, and the Vocational Interest & Personality Reinforcer Type for each frequently-hired-for-job in a specific labor market, and

2)       The Worker Trait Abilities/Capacities Profile, Occupational Values and Needs, and the Vocational Interest & Personality Reinforcer Type of a potential worker in a specific labor market

To meet the first condition, MVQS utilizes a comprehensive and contemporary database of job-demand profiles based upon the US Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), 4th Edition Revised, updated and extended to a 5th Edition in 2001, and updated, upgraded and revised to a 6^th Edition in 2002, by the MVQS Developer, Primary Programmers and Researcher Associates[2]. The entire job bank database of 12,974 jobs is available for job-person matching comparisons. This database has been filtered and re-grouped for comparison in many other combinations: by nation, states, counties, boroughs and parishes, and even cities (in selected cases), to represent different labor market areas. Specifically, MVQS provides databases for all US State, County and Territorial Labor markets (including Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands) based primarily upon job-orders placed with the U.S. Department of Labor Job Service offices across the nation and its territories. Similar sources were used to develop the Canada and Canadian Province Job Banks, to complete the set of 3,291 Labor Market Area Job Banks of reasonably frequently-hired-for-jobs developed thus far.

 To meet the second condition, MVQS helps the user develop an abilities, values and needs, and vocational interest and personality type profiles based upon objective information about the worker's demonstrated and potential performance on 24 vocationally significant worker traits, their Values & Needs and their VIPR Types. MVQS utilizes the worker's work experiences, medical conditions, educational achievements and even their demonstrated activities of daily living, hobbies or avocation. Virtually any test or demonstration of human ability (behavior samples) can help us understand a worker's demonstrated, and maximum potential worker trait profiles.