Employability Skills Inventory
The Employability Skills Inventory (ESI) is an 80-item self-report assessment designed to help individuals quickly evaluate their own workplace strengths and weaknesses to improve their job readiness. Taking only 20 minutes to complete in either online or paper formats, this self-scoring and self-interpreting questionnaire evaluates critical skills directly mapped to federal SCANS requirements. It provides administrators with a fast snapshot of a client’s core capabilities while giving individuals clear improvement strategies and action worksheets to build their professional value.
About this Test
The Employability Skills Inventory helps people to quickly assess their own strengths and weaknesses so that they may improve their skills through additional training and experience.
As a self-report measure, the Employability Skills Inventory (ESI) allows workers to quickly assess their own strengths and weaknesses so that they may improve their skills through additional training and experience and make themselves more marketable.
What It’s Best Used For
- Vocational Guidance & Career Counseling: Helping job seekers map personal traits against market needs.
- Training Program Needs Assessments: Guiding administrators to determine which educational workflows are required most.
- Auditing Foundation Thinking Skills: Evaluating abstract problem-solving, cognitive logic, and universal learning speed.
- Measuring Basic Resource Management: Benchmarking how effectively a person schedules time, space, and work materials.
- Vetting Team and Interpersonal Skills: Tracking a candidate’s natural capacity for collaboration, communication, and group coordination.
- Assessing Practical Technology Literacy: Checking an individual’s basic comfort level with technical systems and device software usage.
- Structured Workforce Goal Setting: Utilizing the built-in goal planning worksheets to build clear professional growth timelines.
It assists administrators by giving them a quick overview of their client’s employability, helping them to determine the training and additional skills needed most. The ESI feeds into the following scales, directly correlated to the SCANS (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) requirements:
- Basic Skills
- Thinking Skills
- Personal Qualities
- Resource Management
- Information Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Systems Management
- Technology Use
The 80-item Employability Skills Inventory assessment is self-scoring and self-interpreting and can be completed in 20 minutes. It includes strategies and recommendations for improving employability skills and a worksheet for setting goals.
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