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  Office of Continuing Ed. & Workforce Development
  The University of Akron
  Wayne College 
  1901 Smucker Road
  Orrville, OH 44667

  330-684-8980 or
  1-800-221-8308, ext. 8980
  Fax: 330-684-8989
  E-mail us at: OCEWD@uakron.edu

SkillsMAXWhether you are hiring new employees or promoting current employees, our SkillsMAX Center can help you select the best person for the job with a wide range of assessment services.

What is Turnover Costing Your Company?

SkillsMAX Gets Results for Employers

Job Profiling: Identifies the knowledge, skills, abilities and personal competencies people need to perform their work well. Has your job requirements changed? Have you created new jobs?

Assessment: Determine employability through pre-hire testing, identify skill deficiencies, and measure training outcomes. Do you know the capabilities needed for your workforce to succeed?

Job Matching: The secret of sustained performance excellence lies in matching the right people who possess the right capabilities and behaviors to the right jobs. Can you improve your methods for selecting and promoting employees?

Competency-Based Interviewing: Learn how to interview for the behaviors, knowledge, and motivations that are needed to be successful in a job.

Performance Management: Develop strategies for individual development, retention and employee succession.

Certification: We offer over 200 certification exams including Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, MOS, and many others. Certification Testing

SkillsMAX Strategic Partners

SHL
For more than 30 years SHL has led the way in applying the science of psychometrics to improve the performance of people through objective assessment. SHL offers the world's largest portfolio of measurement tools.


Brainbench
Brainbench offers more than 600 online assessments for employers and individuals. For employers, they offer assessments for pre-hire and employee development and for individuals, vendor-neutral certifications.


P.D.Q. Workplace Literacy Skills (WLS)
The P.D.Q. Workplace Literacy Skills (WLS) Profile is a computer-based assessment tool to measure an individual's literacy skills in prose, document and quantitative skills.


DDI
Targeted Selection® (TS®) is the most proven and accurate behavior-based selection system in the world. Thousands of leading companies from every industry have used TS® to build better selection systems that hire, promote, and identify top talent.
  • Targeted Selection® is proven to help organizations:
    • Identify the competencies needed for all key positions.
    • Build interviewing skills and confidence for more accurate selection decisions.
    • Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the employee selection process.


Performance Assessment Network (pan)
Performance Assessment Network (pan) is a state-of-the-art web-based system for the distribution, administration, and analysis of professional assessments, tests, and surveys. Pan is distinguished by both its wide range of products and its web-based e-testing process, representing a network of over 35 of the top assessment publishers in the world.


Sterling
Assessments for the following : A leading skill and psychometric assessment provider for 18 years, Sterling/Qwiz has a catalog of more than 500 online assessments and surveys representing a broad range of industries, job types, and competencies.  Also available are background checks and drug screenings.


 
Contact Information:
Nan Whitsel
  whitsel@uakron.edu
330-684-8784

 

 
 
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