Your Asset for Vocational Expertise and Outcomes

McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS) for matching persons with jobs, which uses a unique and unparalleled approach. MVQS uses the measurement scales of the Handbook for Analyzing Jobs, Revised (HAJR) to define the 24 most vocationally significant categories referred to as worker traits. Then, these same worker traits are applied to worker abilities.

The result is a list of occupations available in that market (USA - State/County, Canada - Provinces) within the worker's abilities. MVQS is the most comprehensive and powerful Job-Person Matching System available in the US and Canada. The MVQS profiling process involves understanding (1) the demands of every occupation in a job market and (2) the abilities of a potential worker.

MVQS uses a comprehensive database of job-demand profiles based on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and ONET to represent different job markets. MVQS provides databases for all US states, counties, and Canadian province labor markets. Profiling also includes the worker's job history.

Once the worker profile is ready and the job market (state, county, or province) is chosen, MVQS compares the worker’s measurements on each of the 24 vocationally significant worker traits with those of each job in the database. If the worker trait measure is greater than or equal to the occupation demand measure, MVQS goes to the next measure and compares it again. This process is repeated until the worker’s ability measure in one of the worker traits falls below the demand. If that happens, the occupation is excluded from the results. If the worker profile meets or exceeds the occupation demand in every one of the 24 worker traits, then that job is retained. MVQS then goes to the next occupation and starts all over again. It does this for every 1 of the nearly 13,000 occupations in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. When finished, the final list contains only occupations suitable for that worker in their geographic area.

The MVQS is Frye-Daubert ready! The MVQS Programs and their predecessors have been widely used and accepted for their helpfulness in determining individual employability and earning capacity in the US and Canada.

These programs have been used by Vocational Experts, Rehabilitation Counselors, Vocational Evaluators, College Counselors, Rehabilitation Economists, Earning Analysts, and related professionals in more than 45 US States. They have long since met the Frye Test of General Acceptance (Frye v. US, 293 F. 1013, 1923) and Daubert Standards in Scientific Vocational Rehabilitation and Related Communities.

MVQS has proven to be reliable (provides consistent results), valid (measures what it is expected to measure) and has known acceptable error estimates (accuracy of predictions). Earnings Capacity estimates can be adjusted for different years (Wage Inflation), Geographic Location (ECLR) and Job Difficulty (VQ) to 2030.

Created by a Vocational Expert

The original software was created by Dr. Billy J. McCroskey, Ph.D., CRE, CRC, CRV, ABVE and was originally named the McCroskey Vocational Assessment System (MVAS). Dr. Billy McCroskey dedicated his life and career to Vocational Rehabilitation Research. He received the David S. Frank Award twice, and the Scott E. Streater Educational Award twice.

Articles

MVQS Worker Trait Factor Analysis
Journal of Forensic Vocational Analysis Volume 21, 2021

The Scientific Predication of Transferrable Skills
Journal of Forensic Vocationology, 6, (1), p. 7 — 16, 2000

McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS) 6th Edition Primer
Smolarski, Ron, International Association of Rehabilitation Specialists