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How confident are you in accurately measuring your learners’ employability skills?

Lindsay Plumpton

By: Lindsay Plumpton

Communications Leader

Monday 27 June 2016

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Within the work preparation element of a Study Programme, we understand that sometimes it is difficult to identify your learners’ baseline strengths and weaknesses, design tailored programmes based upon this and accurate track distance travelled from the start to the end of the course.

REED NCFE is excited to be launching a brand new Baseline Employability Skills Test, BESTest, which answers all of these questions and more.

In conjunction with the University of Leeds Business School Organisational Behaviour team, REED NCFE has developed a new psychometric test which quickly and accurately measures your learners' employability skills. As well an overall score, each learner receives a set of ten underlying scores that relate to the usual employability skills indicators such as interview technique and job search, and to those personal qualities such as motivation and sociability, that make all the difference. The table below shows the criteria that is assessed and scored:

Overall learner work readiness
Key Employability Indicators Personal Qualities 
 CV  Motivation
 Job Search  Professionalism
 Interview Technique  Resilience
 Workplace Behaviours  Organisation
    Sociability
 Initiative 

Already trialled with almost 1,000 learners, this test has transformed learners' self-awareness and motivation to learn. It's sure to become an invaluable asset to colleges seeking to differentiate and improve their employability skills provision and, in addition, it will provide reliable and objective evidence of distance travelled.

Recently REED NCFE has hosted a number of webinars focusing on BESTest. If you’d like to watch a recording of how to use BESTest with Study Programme learners please click HERE.  If you’d like to watch a recording of how use BESTest to prepare learners for Apprenticeships please click HERE. 

 

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