MVQS-Primer 6: Significance of the VQ

The VQ is significant in most everything MVQS does with the results of the job-person matching process. One thing is especially important to remember: for all of its uses, the VQ is NOT involved in the comparison process.

 The VQ IS used after the results are in. Here's the key: job difficulty (VQ) correlates with job performance, satisfaction and earnings. Job difficulty correlates with job performance; persons with high VQs can do more difficult jobs. Job difficulty also correlates with job satisfaction; the more of one's ability (VQ) used in their work, the more their satisfaction in the job. Job difficulty also correlates with earnings; jobs with higher VQs tend to pay more.

Ordering jobs in the results list by VQ tends to place the most difficult jobs above the less difficult jobs. And since all jobs on the list are within the worker's ability, the jobs high in the list tend to afford the worker opportunity for greater responsibility, satisfaction and earnings.

 But VQ is not the only variable used by MVQS to order jobs in the results list. There are several others.