Services Offered

  • A vocational evaluation assesses a person's skills, interests, and abilities to help determine what kind of work they are best suited for.

  • An Earning Capacity Assessment evaluates a person's potential to earn money in the workforce.

  • Labor Market Research is a process where information is gathered and analyzed about job opportunities, wages, and employment trends in various industries and locations.

  • Vocational counseling helps individuals understand their career options, develop career goals, and plan steps to achieve those goals.

  • This process involves evaluating the efforts made by an individual to find new employment.

  • Job search coaching involves providing guidance and support to individuals looking for employment.

  • These services involve identifying and suggesting modifications or adjustments in the workplace to help people with disabilities or specific needs perform their job duties effectively.

  • Providing specialized knowledge and insights in legal cases related to employment and disability.

Vocational and Employability Evaluations

A vocational evaluation assesses a person's skills, interests, and abilities to help determine what kind of work they are best suited for. This evaluation often includes an interview, skill tests, and sometimes work trials. The goal is to find the best career options and provide recommendations for training or job placement to ensure the person can succeed in the recommended field.

A vocational evaluation can be used for career planning and development, assist in the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services, and provide educational guidance or recommendations.

Earning Capacity Assessments

An Earning Capacity Assessment evaluates a person's potential to earn money in the workforce. This assessment considers various factors such as the person's education, skills, work experience, and physical and mental capabilities. The goal is to determine what types of jobs the person can do and how much they can potentially earn now and in the future.

Earning capacity assessments help people understand their earning potential, plan careers, and help people with disabilities or injuries to understand their future earning possibilities.

Labor Market Research

Labor Market Research is a process where information is gathered and analyzed about job opportunities, wages, and employment trends in various industries and locations. This research helps to match an individual's skills, abilities, and interests with realistic job options in the current market. This analysis can assess both current labor market conditions and conditions years in the past.

These services can help individuals understand available job opportunities, provide wage information, assess employment trends, and understand employer requirements like qualifications and experience employers are looking for in potential employees. They can assist with career planning, vocational rehabilitation services, and in legal settings.

Vocational Counseling

Vocational counseling helps individuals understand their career options, develop career goals, and plan steps to achieve those goals. This type of counseling can involve assessing the individual's interests, skills, values, and personality traits to provide tailored career guidance.

These services can help individuals with career development, educational planning, and job transitions.

Job Search Diligence Evaluations

Expert Testimony

This process involves evaluating the efforts made by an individual to find new employment. It involves reviewing the individual's job applications, tracking their job search activities, verifying the appropriateness of the positions applied for in relation to their qualifications and experience, and examining any barriers they might have faced in the job market.

The purpose of this assessment is to determine whether the individual has made reasonable efforts to actively seek comparable employment. It is often performed in conjunction with a retrospective labor market analysis to evaluate the state of the labor market during the individual’s job search and the volume of opportunities available.

Job Search Coaching

Job search coaching involves providing guidance and support to individuals looking for employment. This includes helping with resume writing, interview preparation, job search strategies, and networking techniques.

The purpose of these services is to enhance skills and techniques to increase chances of getting hired, assist those who are changing careers or seeking new job opportunities, and helping job seekers feel more confident in their job search and interview skills.

Accommodation Recommendations

These services involve identifying and suggesting modifications or adjustments in the workplace to help people with disabilities or specific needs perform their job duties effectively. Often provided in conjunction with a vocational evaluation, these recommendations are tailored to the individual's specific requirements and the job's demands.

The process involves assessing an individual's specific needs and job requirements to suggest modifications like ergonomic furniture, assistive technology, flexible work arrangements, job restructuring, and additional training. These accommodations aim to enhance productivity and promote an inclusive work environment.

Expert testimony involves providing specialized knowledge and insights in legal cases related to employment and disability. This process includes an evaluation of an individual’s vocational abilities, employment potential, and the impact of injuries of disabilities (if present) on their capacity to work. This testimony often includes a comprehensive vocational assessment, labor market analysis, and earning capacity evaluation. Findings are presented in a written report and testimony may be needed to explain conclusions to help the court understand the evaluated individual’s vocational prospects.

This testimony can be helpful in many types of cases including worker’s compensation, personal injury, Social Security Disability, divorces, employment discrimination, and wrongful termination.