Assessments & Testing
Continual learning and skill development are the keys to improved knowledge, confidence and sharing of ideas….in other words, your career.
We are pleased to offer the following assessment tools, tutorials and recommended learning to help you expand your career horizons!
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Profiles XT
- Thinking and Reasoning Style: learning index, verbal skill, verbal reasoning, numerical ability and numeric reasoning.
- Behavioral Traits: energy level, assertiveness, sociability, manageability, attitude, decisiveness, accommodating, independence and objective judgment.
- Occupational Interests: people service, creative, mechanical, technical, financial/administrative and enterprising.
Matching people so they fit the work they do builds productivity and job-satisfaction and diminishes negative factors such as stress, tension, conflict, miscommunication, and costly employee turnover.
Skills Assessment
Kenexa/Prove It offers over 900 validated assessments in the areas shown below. Skills assessment testing is part of our screening/recruitment service for both full-time and temporary positions.
| Software | AccPac, WordPerfect, Excel, Access, Word, Quickbooks Pro, Powerpoint. |
| Tutorials |
Access, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Windows, Peacktree Accounting, Quickbooks Pro
Enhance your computer skills: On-line tutorials are offered free of charge to all candidates registered with Employment Network. |
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Office/Professional
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Data entry, French-English Bilingual, Listening skills, office grammar & spelling, office math, office telephone etiquette, Typing speed and accuracy, etc. |
| Accounting | Accounting terminology, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general accounting, JD Edwards, Peachtree Accounting, QuickbooksPro, Quicken, Simply Accounting, etc. |
| Call Centre | Call centre 911 operators, spelling, collections, inbound sales skills, listening skills, outbound sales skills, telephone etiquette, world geography, etc. |
| Financial | Auditing, credit management, data entry, financial analysis, financial math,Great Plains, loan processing, payroll, Peoplesoft Financials, property insurance/management, SAP for users, etc. |
| Healthcare | Dental assistant, general pharmaceutical knowledge, healthcare industry terminology, medical assistant, medical spelling, medical terminology, physical therapy, typing-medical, etc. |
| Legal | Basic litigation knowledge, court reporting, legal abbreviations, legal assistant, legal spelling, paralegal skills, typing-legal, etc. |
| Industrial | AutoCAD, basic CNC, basic warehousing knowledge, blueprint reading, color identification, forklift operation, general maintenance, quality assurance inspection, carpentry, tools and fasteners, weights and measures-standard and metric), workplace hazardous materials information system–WHMIS, etc. |
| Technical | A+, AJAX, C++ Programming, Cisco networking, Citrix for client server applications, ColdFusion, Crystal Reports, Dreamweaver, HTML, Java, Linux administration, Macromedia Flash, network administration, Oracle, SQL server, TCP/IP, visual basic, etc. |
Public Speaking Skills
Toastmasters International
There’s a club near you! -- District 42 Toastmasters (Saskatchewan + Alberta)
-- We highly recommend this as a comfortable, fun environment to increase your confidence in public speaking, while developing your communication and leadership skills.
Seminars & Workshops
Great Reading
What Color is Your Parachute 2008 by Richard Nelson Bolles
An informative and practical manual for job-hunters and career changers.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The sole purpose of this book is to help you solve the biggest problem you face: the problem of getting along with and influencing people in your everyday, business and social contacts. This book has sold more than fifteen million copies--one of the greatest records in history for a non-fiction book.
Good to Great: "Why some Companies make the Leap…and Others Don't" by Jim Collins
Based on a five-year research project, Good to Great answers the question: “Can a good company become a great company, and, if so, how?” True to the rigorous research methodology and invigorating teaching style of Jim Collins, Good to Great teaches how even the dowdiest of companies can make the leap to outperform market leaders the likes of Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
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