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The Career Alignment Profile is a simple, accurate self-assessment tool.

CAP helps individuals to determine their strengths through the identification of their unique interests, abilities and work style preferences. CAP generates a personal report to enable an individual to match their unique strengths to job requirements, appropriate training, career fields, or other specific career opportunities. On average, individuals can complete this profile in twenty minutes.

As part of the service, individuals may register in the system, using employee identification numbers, for one-time or repeated access. Used effectively, the CAP allows employees to focus on areas in which they may maximize their skills and maximize their strengths, thus providing optimal return on investment for the organization.

Effectively applied, the career alignment process increases job performance and satisfaction.

Color Cruncher helps individuals evaluate optimal career choices by analyzing key words in job descriptions, job listings, training programs, and recreational and volunteer postings.

By using Color Cruncher in conjunction with the personalized CAP assessment report, individuals are able to compare their strengths to specific opportunities. If the majority of an individual's colors align with the results of the Color Cruncher, the opportunity is a potentially good match that the individual may choose to pursue. If not, more opportunities can be easily and quickly explored.

The Career Alignment Profile is flexible enough to work with an organization's Human Resource Information System (HRIS).

The system is also able to take job description information and generate career matches which may either go directly to the individual or to the human resources area for review. The CAP therefore becomes an excellent adjunct to the career and succession planning process.

Of equal importance is the use of the CAP during times of redeployment. As companies go through periods of mergers and acquisitions or are making decisions whether or not to invest or divest from certain product areas or are simply reallocating their work force, it is important to understand the innate skills of the existing work force as well as the requirements for the future. The CAP enables organizations to perform skills gap analyses of their current and future work force requirements. In this environment the CAP serves to assist the organization in determining where excess skills exist and where new skills need to be acquired.

CAP also has potential application to be added to an organization's Human Resource Information System (HRIS) as a unique employee development tool that can supplement the traditional HRIS applications which are typically transactional vice developmental in nature. There is a critical business imperative for HR developmental resources in the HRIS arena as more and more organizations in the private and public sectors struggle with addressing recruitment and retention issues.

An additional application of the CAP is its use as a tool to review existing job descriptions. Review and comparison of verbiage in existing job descriptions by CAP ensures that the language being used matches the characteristics of the task. When used as a job/task description analyzer, the CAP enables organizations to rapidly determine if the language in the description is commensurate with the job title, or if the current language needs to be updated and modified. The CAP quickly enables companies to make sure their job/task descriptions say what they mean so that hiring, career development, retention and career transition are based on valid and meaningful requirements.

The following examples illustrate just a few of the potential applications for the Career Alignment Profile and the Color Cruncher. Self Assessment Tool - The CAP helps individuals quickly identify their strengths in relation to the workplace requirements through the identification of their interests, abilities, and work style preferences.

Self Assessment Tool - The CAP helps individuals quickly identify their strengths in relationship to the workplace requirements through the identification of their interests, abilities, and work style preferences.

Guided Assessment in the Outplacement process - Individuals being outplaced need definitive information about what they have to offer the marketplace before they begin their job search. CMI counselors provide clients with insights into career areas which are most closely supported by individual strengths, workstyle preference and skills. The CAP allows clients to determine the career areas that are a good fit for them in understandable terms, thus providing a firm foundation for the resume process and the marketing strategy.

Career Alignment Process - Participants match their strengths to job requirements, specific opportunities, alternative career fields or additional training by analyzing key words in job descriptions, job postings and curricula.

Curricula and Job Description Review - Business organizations and educational institutions can utilize the CAP to review existing job descriptions and course descriptions for accuracy and to identify core strengths and competencies required for success.

Outreach Tool - The CAP is intended as a self-development tool and is not intended for use as a primary selection tool. It is used for development and specialized applications with the appropriate permission of the participant.

Links to Training and Higher Education - Companies and educational institutions can use the strength identification components of the CAP to help individuals align to internal and external training opportunities.

The CAP is a systematic, solution focused assessment tool that is well suited for use in industry, academia, and the public/federal sectors. It enables organizations to enhance workforce development, deliver customized career management capabilities, foster continuous learning, improve productivity, and support retention and attrition management.

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Calendar/Agenda

The calendar has the following features:

• Reminders for events can be sent out via email, if desired
• Users can choose to share events with other users
• Calendar can be viewed by year, month, week and day
• Intuitive navigation between the different views
• Easily add, modify or delete events
• Support for repeatable events by choosing a "Recurring Event" option
• Events can span mulitple days, if desired
• Support for unlimited events
• Events can be color-coded for easy identification

Contacts / Addressbook

The contacts database has the following features:

• Contacts can easily be grouped into folders
• Addressbook import and export functionality to popular formats
• Three different views are available
• Contacts may be searched by name, alias, description and address
• Direct clickable links to webpages and email addresses
• Easily add, modify or delete contacts

Notes

The notes function has the following features:

• A familiar yellow square design
• Easily add, modify or delete notes
• Support for unlimited amount of notes
• Notes can be organized into folders for easy reference

To-Do Lists/Tasks

The to-do lists function has the following features:

• Tasks can be sorted by name, description, priority, percentage complete, start date, due date and more
• Three different views are available
• Easily add, modify or delete tasks
• Tasks can easily be grouped into folders
• Support for an unlimited number of tasks

Link Management / Bookmark

The link management function has the following features:

• Links and bookmarks are available from any computer
• Bookmarks can be easily added with just one click
• Netscape/Mozilla bookmarks import and export functionality
• Opera import and export functionality
• Bookmarks may be searched by name, url or description
• Easily add, modify or delete bookmarks
• Support for an unlimited number of bookmarks
• Bookmarks can be organized into folders for easy reference
• Multiple views are available, including a directory structure and a tree structure
• Bookmarks may be sorted by last visited, last modified, most visited and last created

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The Online Career Transition Workbook is an interactive replica of CMI's proven paper version, the Career Transition Workbook. Clients are encouraged to work at their own pace, on their own schedule, while their counselors have access to online progress reports, including resume drafts. The entire system is online, which means there is no software to download, and clients can access their work and information from any computer with internet access.

Many times, access to the Online Career Transition Workbook is given to a client anxious to begin the program prior to the first meeting. At any point in the career transition process, the client has the freedom to choose between continuing with the online workbook, or transferring his or her information to the more traditional hard copy version. All of CMI's clients are provided with both options.

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