How does Job SAT work?
Job SAT takes a web-based, intuitive and AI-led approach to identifying gaps in a wide range of 21st century critical job skills required for leading self & others towards workplace success by:
A Catastrophic Global Problem
The missing skills that TRULY MATTER FOR THE JOBS OF 21ST CENTURY.
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Why this problem persists?
While soft skills are increasingly becoming the hard skills of today’s workforce, most new employees continue to come to organizations without them and even more alarmingly, go through their entire career without acquiring the critical job skills. Looking deeply at the modern history of most of the successful people in their personal, professional or social spaces, it is quite evident that, it’s just not enough to be highly trained in technical skills without developing the more practical and softer job skills.
The critical job skills to lead self & others, to build symbiotic relationships with people & organizations, and to communicate and collaborate effectively are more vital than ever as organizations struggle to find meaningful ways to remain competitive and be productive. Since job skills are an essential element for organizational and personal success, hence it is quite natural for corporates and educational institutions to focus on increasing the index of soft skills proficiency among the employment ready young citizens. And, logically, their primary focus should have been on how to assess the soft skills levels of their future employees using a real-world diagnostic tool and to develop the softer job skills capacities of their current employees. But what contributes to perpetuating this massive global problem can be attributed to two tragic yet ironical facts.
Tragic Fact #1: Most of the prevalent employability and job assessment tools that are used by employers worldwide are still focussed on testing job-specific technical skills, cognitive skills and at best assessing some personality traits and psychological characteristics.
Tragic Fact #2: Corporates worldwide are spending only 1/4th of their training & development funds for enhancement of the softer job skills as compared to their spending on imparting training on hard/technical skills.
What is Job SAT & how can it help?
What is Job SAT & how can it help?
When hiring, developing, or promoting employees for new positions in any organization, resumes, technical assessments and 30 minute interviews can only tell you so much. All those tools at best provide some indicators about what a person knows and what they have done. But, the best way to understand the true individual personae behind the facade, his/her decision-making DNA and their proficiency in critical life/work skills is to take the help of an assessment test that is hugely relevant to the current socio-economic realities yet geared to assess futuristic job skills. Job SAT is perfectly aligned and engineered to achieve both those goals by
- Defining a holistic set of job skills that matter’ and,
- Designing an intuitive assessment algorithm that is based on simulation of real-life scenario based decision making
The Job SAT Critical Job Skills Framework
The pioneering Job Skills Assessment Test (Job SAT) developed at Life Skills University, Singapore and administered worldwide by Skillizen Learning Global provides a comprehensive framework and assessment methodology covering 25 critical job skills that are key to success in professional and personal lives of young citizens.
– TEAMWORK
– ENFLUENCING COMMUNICATION SKILLS (ENGAGING+INFLUENCING)
– LEADING OTHERS
– EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
– NEGOTIATION SKILLS
– PRESENTATION SKILLS
- CREATIVITY & INNOVATION
- CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING
- RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
- INTRAPRENEURSHIP/ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- LEARNING SKILLS
- DIGITAL/VIRTUAL PRODUCTIVITY
- LEADING SELF (SELF MANAGEMENT)
- GOAL SETTING SKILLS
- PERSONAL BRANDING SKILLS
- PERSONAL FINANCE SENSE
- SMART CONSUMER SKILLS
- DECISION MAKING SKILLS
- PLANNING & ORGANIZATION
- GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
- FLEXIBILITY & ADAPTABILITY
- ECONOMIC COMMON SENSE
- ETHICS & VALUES
- COLLABORATION & NETWORKING
- EMPATHY & COMPASSION
- Establishing a clear assessment framework of job skill definitions and exemplars
- Gathering observations to identify behavioural patterns and ensure assessment is evidence-based
- Catalysing the participants self-awareness of job skill gaps and strengths through honest and consistent feedback
- Comparing against a skill wise global benchmark of global average and global maximum index on each job skill.
- Providing incisive and motivating progress reports for the students and prospective employees.
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How to use the JobSAT report?
The insightful report produced by Job SAT offers composite job skills map of the candidate along with skill wise intelligence benchmarked against a global average and global maximum index.
- Defining insights on particular job skills that are strong or weak areas for the candidate.
- Going deeper into the personae of the candidate by matching and looking for consistency or lack of it in the linked job skills for example empathy and communication skills are strongly linked with leadership skills.
- Employers can choose to benchmark against geographic or vertical industry specific skills wise index or look at the average indices across industries.
Some employers prefer to use the Job SAT as an ongoing dynamic job skills benchmark and apply the assessment on the same set of employees after a specified period.
