MVQS-Primer 5: Vocational Quotient (VQ)

The VQ is an index of overall job difficulty. It too starts as a simple idea: the sum of all job demands. It does not remain quite so simple but this is the fundamental meaning of VQ.

 The VQ in the MVQS is the result of some sophisticated statistical manipulations performed on the sum of the measurements on the 24 vocationally significant traits and a few other measures. Every job has a VQ. The larger the VQ, the larger is the total demand made upon a worker doing that job. Doctors have very high VQs and material handlers have low VQs.

Thanks to the wonders of mathematics, it is possible to compute a VQ for any profile of the 24 vocationally significant traits, including those of jobs and of workers, but worker VQs tend to be higher than Job VQs.