The McCroskey Vocational Quotient  System (MVQS)

for Matching Persons with Jobs

The MVQS is a unique, unparalleled approach to matching people with their best job choices.  It's based upon the objective performance demands that jobs require of workers 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 every ability the job requires. 

The first challenge is to measure job demands and worker abilities in comparable terms.  The 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 ability meets or exceeds the job's requirement in every vocationally significant trait. 

MVQS helps the user to develop the profile of abilities for the worker and compare it to the job demands in every vocationally significant trait of every job in a job market. The result is a list of jobs available in that market that are within the worker's abilities.