We are in the process of creating a user-friendly version of the MVQS software that
includes the McDOT, McPLOT and MTSP.

The original software was created by Dr. Billy J. McCroskey, CRC, CRE, CRV, ABVE.

McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS) MTSP, Volcano and VDARE Programs (McCroskey, 2017) The McCroskey Vocational Quotient System 2017 (MVQS2017 ; McCroskey, 2017) is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and powerful Job-Person Matching System available in the US and Canada.

The McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS) for Matching Persons with Jobs

The MVQS is a unique, unparalleled approach to matching people with their best job choices. It is based upon the objective performance demands that jobs require of workers and upon the objective performance abilities of the worker.

The first challenge is to measure job demands and worker abilities in comparable terms. The MVQS does this by using the concepts and adapted measurement scales of Job Analysis to define the 24 most vocationally significant categories referred to as traits. Then, these same categories, or traits, are applied to worker abilities, in exactly the same measurement terms. In this way they become compare-able. A worker can do any job where his ability meets or exceeds the job’s requirement in every vocationally significant trait.

MVQS helps the user to develop the profile of abilities for the worker and compare it to the job demands in every vocationally significant trait of every job in a job market. The result is a list of jobs available in that market that are within the worker’s abilities.

Profiling

Essential to this process is knowing (1) the demands of every job in a job market and (2) the abilities of a potential worker.

To meet the first condition, MVQS utilizes a comprehensive and contemporary database of job-demand profiles based upon the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), revised and updated by the MVQS developers. The entire database is available to make comparisons. They can be grouped in any combination – by states, counties or even cities or major corporations – to represent different job markets. MVQS provides databases for all state and county markets based primarily upon job-orders placed with the U.S. Department of Labor Job Service offices across the nation.

To meet the second condition, MVQS helps the user develop an abilities profile based upon objective information about the worker’s demonstrated and potential performance in the vocationally significant traits. It utilizes the worker’s work experiences, medical conditions, educational achievement and even their demonstrated activities of daily living, hobbies or avocation. Virtually any test or demonstration of human ability can be used to maximize the worker’s profile.

Job-Matching

Once the worker profile is ready and the job market is chosen, MVQS does the comparison. Taking one job at a time from the database, the measurements on each of the 24 vocationally significant traits are compared. If the worker’s first measure is greater than or equal to the job demand measure, MVQS goes to the next measure and compares again. This process is repeated until the worker’s ability measure in one of the traits falls below the demand. If that happens, the job is excluded from the results. If the worker profile meets or exceeds the job demand in every one of the 24 traits, the job is retained. MVQS then goes to the next job and starts all over again

Say there are 1000 jobs in the job market’s database. In this example the process involves 24 comparisons for each of 1000 jobs. That is 24,000 comparisons! When finished, the final list contains only jobs the worker can do in every category. That is a pretty strict rule, on purpose; there can be little doubt that the jobs on the resulting list are good matches for the worker.

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