System for Assessment and Group Evaluation SAGE

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System for Assessment and Group Evaluation (SAGE)

• Service of PIC of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc.
• Comprehensive assessment system
• Reliable, valid and non-discriminatory
• Can be customized to meet your needs
• Administered at multiple locations
• Quick results
• Local staff for personal service and follow-up
• Low cost

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SAGE 19 Assessments

• 3 Cognitive Conceptual Abilities skills
  acquired and retained through education,
  experience and self-learning
• Reasoning
• Math
• Language
• 11 Vocational Aptitudes
• 5 Additional Units

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11 Vocational Aptitudes
Aptitude is the innate ability needed to learn to
perform a given work activity

• General Learning
• Verbal
• Numerical
• Spatial
• Form Perception
• Clerical Perception

• Motor Coordination
• Finger Dexterity
• Manual Dexterity
• Eye-Hand-Foot Coordination
• Color Discrimination

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5 Additional Units

• Temperament Factor
• Adaptability requirements made on workers by
  specific types of job-worker situations
• Persons dissatisfaction or failure often due to
  inability to adapt rather than inability to learn
  and carry out job duties

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5 Additional Units

• Vocational Interest
• Oriented towards activities rather than jobs for
  a broad appeal to those with and without work
  experience
• Learning Style
• Preferred learning style (visual, auditory or
  kinesthetic)
• Preferred modes of expression (oral or written)
• Preferred ways of learning/working (alone or in a
  group)

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5 Additional Units

• Work Attitude
• Attitudes and beliefs about the world of work and
  knowledge of employer expectations
• Work Ethic
• How person works under pressure and reacts in
  stressful work situations

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When is SAGE Used

• Career Planning
• Make informed training and employment decisions
• Hiring
• Job Matching put right person in right job
• Use all resources available to you
• Current workforce
• Better coach, manage, motivate
• Build ongoing, positive succession plan

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More Information

• Terri Campbell, CWDP
• Vice President of Operations
• Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette
  Inc.
• [phone] x262
• tcampbell_at_privateindustrycouncil.com