Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition

The Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition helps you achieve a more effective job search and identify those hurdles and obstacles that stand in the way of your job success. 

Also see: Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 5th Edition

Identify Your Barriers to Getting and Succeeding on a Job

With more than 800,000 copies in print, the Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition is the quickest and easiest way for people to identify those hurdles and obstacles that stand in the way of their job success. Though it takes only 20 minutes to complete, this powerful inventory not only helps people conduct a more effective job search, it helps them be more successful on the job as well.

What It’s Best Used For

This inventory serves as an excellent diagnostic and motivating tool for career counselors, job training programs, and employment centers to identify clients who need immediate, targeted intervention.

• Tracking 5 Core Roadblocks: It highlights a client’s specific vulnerabilities across five life dimensions: Personal & Financial, Emotional & Physical, Career Decision-Making & Planning, Job-Seeking Knowledge, and Training & Education.
• Creating Immediate Action Plans: Once a user uncovers their specific barriers, the test provides built-in advice and informational web resources to help them build a structured, personal success plan.
• Tailoring Career Counseling: It allows advisors to instantly skip the guesswork and customize their coaching to match the exact needs of each client, whether in individual or group counseling sessions.

The inventory is fully legal for use in Canada.

Test takers rate 50 simple statements covering five categories:

• Personal and Financial
• Emotional and Physical
• Career Decision-Making and Planning
• Job-Seeking Knowledge
• Training and Education

Self-Scoring and Self-Interpreting

Once users have identified their barriers, the BESI suggest ways to overcome them and helps individuals develop an action plan, which can be used in either group or individual career counseling. The Barriers to Employment Success Inventory – 4th Edition is ideal for any career counselor needing to quickly identify those individuals requiring immediate intervention and to help tailor their assistance to meet the specific needs of each client. Valid and reliable, the BESI makes an ideal screening tool for administrators and counselors as well as an empowering motivator for clients.

This new edition features a redesigned layout, updated items, an expanded barriers list, and an updated action plan including informational Web resources to help people overcome their barriers. In addition, the third edition has augmented validity and reliability data, and the administrator’s guide has been expanded to include additional supporting research and administration tips.