MVQS-Primer 3: Comparison, Job-Matching

Once the worker profile is ready and the job market is chosen, MVQS does the comparison. It takes a omputer to do it but the idea is still pretty simple.

This is what happens. Taking one job at a time from the database, the measurements on each of the 24 vocationally significant traits is compared. If the worker's first measure is greater than or equal to the job demand measure, MVQS goes to the next measure and compares again. This process is repeated until the worker's ability measure in one of the traits falls below the demand. If that happens, the job is excluded from the results. If the worker profile meets or exceeds the job demand in every one of the 24 traits, the job is retained. MVQS then goes to the next job and starts all over again.

Say there are 1000 jobs in the job market's database. In this example the process involves 24 comparisons for each of 1000 jobs. That is 24,000 comparisons! When finished, the final list contains only jobs the worker can do in every category. That is a pretty strict rule, on purpose; there can be little doubt that the jobs on the resulting list are good matches for the worker.