Carol Kramer
"Rochester ACCESS has been using the World of Work Inventory with our consumers since 1999. The vocational rehabilitation counselors find it to be a useful, and cost effective tool for assisting our disabled consumers through the process of choosing a vocational goal."
Carol Kramer
Director of Counseling
Rochester ACCESS
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Introduction
Why use WOWI?
Introduction
Why use WOWI?
- Multidimensional approach
- Valid: Predictive Validity = .89
- Speed and ease
- Cost-effective: ROI (500%)
- Expand beyond interests
- Focus on job activities, not titles
- Reduce impact of social desirability
- Content - Interests
- Process - Work Styles
- Performance - Training Potentials (skills/achievement)
- Order: Training Potentials, Work Styles, Interests
- Just because you are interested in something doesn't mean you'll be good at it.
- Just because you are good at something doesn't mean you'll like it.
- Just because you like something and are good at it does not mean
you have the corresponding work-style for doing it.
- Instructions
- Completion time
- Different versions of the WOWI
- Account management
- Saving reports
- Developed from Department of Labor jobs database
- Linked to O*Net and OOH
- Identifies Department of Labor green jobs and jobs with a bright outlook
- Performance measurement
- Scales
- Norms
- Estimates of achievement grade levels
- Preferences
- Remediation strategies
- Content
- Data, People and Thing orientations
- Self-referenced vs. normed
- Neutral range
- Central range
- Behavior prediction
- Scores reflect more than preferences for job
- Question: Is it more important to get what you love on the job or avoid what you hate?
- Causes of burn-out, absenteeism, etc.
- Application to case study (Lee Smith)
- Process and Work Style
- Understanding negative JSIs
- Looking beyond the “adjustment period”
- Lee Smith profile
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