Career Intake & Counselling Scale

Use the handy Career Intake & Counselling Scale assessment to identify urgent career development needs and developing treatment plans.

Setting Goals For Attaining Career Success

The Career Intake & Counseling Scale provides a structured assessment for identifying clients’ or students’ most significant and urgent career development needs and developing treatment plans that will address those needs.

What It’s Best Used For

This scale is best utilized by employment counselors, case managers, and educators during the initial intake phase to quickly diagnose client hurdles and design targeted, personalized action plans.

• Pinpointing 5 Core Barriers: The assessment maps and tracks a client’s top roadblocks across five critical dimensions: Personal Barriers, Education and Training, Career Development, the Job Search, and Job Transitions.
• Streamlining Case Management: By instantly plotting results into a clean Career Intake Profile table, advisors can skip the guesswork and immediately customize their counseling approach to fit the client’s exact vulnerabilities.
• Building a Career Success Action Plan: Rather than just scoring weaknesses, the final step of the tool actively guides individuals through recommended activities and helps them craft a concrete list of goals and steps for attaining professional success.
• Frictionless Office Delivery: The paper format requires no specialized computer equipment, allows for quick by-hand scoring, and is entirely legal for use in Canada.

These responses are scored and recorded in a Career Intake Profile table that identifies individuals’ top career-related concerns and barriers.

This includes

• Personal barriers
• Education and training
• Career development
• Job search
• Job transition

Next, individuals will review recommended activities for overcoming employment barriers and enhancing their career development. In the last step of the assessment, individuals will craft a Career Success Action Plan that identifies their top goals and steps for attaining them.

Employment counselors and educators can use this information to quickly customize their case management plans for the varying needs of their clients or students.

The CICS takes about 20 minutes to complete and is ideal for any program that provides career counseling, job search assistance, or vocational guidance.