SkillScan’s Career Driver Online Assessment

This inexpensive assessment is geared for clients that are ready to embark on a professional career or desire to make a career transition. It is taken online.

Coaches can set up an administrative account to purchase, administer, and download reports for their clients. They can access a Counselor’s User Guide that provides complete information on how administer, interpret, and coach clients on their results. For each section of the report, it provides suggested strategies and sample questions to use with career launcher and career transitioner clients. Also, coaches can download many helpful materials.

It will take your clients approximately 25 minutes to complete this online assessment. They can select either a Career Launcher Report (for people that are new to a professional career) or a Career Transitioner Report (for people that have two or more years of professional experience). After they’ve completed the assessment, they can download their report as a pdf. Coaches can download their clients’ reports through their administrative account.

The SkillScan’s Career Driver report provides a report overview and has four sections.

1.    Your Skill Road Map: lists their top four (out of six) skill categories (analytical, communication, creative, management/ leadership, physical/ technical, and relationship) in rank order, along with their highest rated skill in these categories. Coaches can encourage their clients to review this information to determine how well it aligns with their current or anticipated career.

2.    Road Work: shows skills most critical to their career development, along with development tips. Coaches can work with their clients to create a development action plan.

3.    Road Closures: displays the skills they have little or no interest in using or developing. Coaches can ask their clients how many of these skills they use in their current position. If they’re using a lot of their least favorite skills in their current position, it will bring clarity about which aspects of their job are least enjoyable.

4.    Your Trip Guide: shows their strongest preferred skill sets (out of 18 skill sets), in priority order, with common traits and suggested career options for each of them. Coaches can encourage them to focus attention on their top 2-4 skill sets and identify which of the relevant career options are most appealing. Then, they can explore relevant options in their current or future organization.

5.    Driver’s Test (only in the Career Transition Report): provides focusing activities and actions for them to learn more about their skills, interests, values, and work environment. Coaches can ask their clients to complete these activities, and then, ask them questions to determine the main causes(s) of their career dissatisfaction. Next, coaches can suggest them to brainstorm careers that would better fit them.

6.    Side Trips and Resources: provides them with information and resources to further assess, explore, develop, and promote a future career direction.

In summary, coaching on flow, along with the use of the Knowdell™ Motivated Skills Card Sort or SkillScan’s Career Driver Online assessment, will enable clients to become more clear about the skills they most, and least, enjoy using. Then, the coach can guide their clients to identify a career(s) that will allow them to use their enjoyable skills and stay away from their least enjoyable skills. Finally, the coach can work with them to create a development plan in order to develop their enjoyable skills and move toward their ideal career.

Copyright 2010. Nancy Branton