EPICS is currently utilized by schools in Connecticut and at Connecticut’s Department of Aging and Disability, the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, and state vocational agencies.

EPICS Career Inventory Tool Program Introductory Offer

Introductory offer highlights:

• The license includes one year of 500 assessments
• Online training for facilitators
• Certificate of Attendance

The EPICS introductory program for groups beginning at $395*

This introductory license offers the flexibility to try EPICS with several smaller cohorts of students, online or in the classroom.

What’s Included:

• Unique URL for your school or organization
• Onboarding for facilitators/educators/counselors
• 45-minute online workshop on how to use the program, take the assessment, interpret their results, and view activities
• 500 EPICS Assessments– easily uploaded as a task on most platforms (e.g., Naviance)
• Worksheets with motivational activities to be used individually or in group sessions.
• Certificate on completion. 

You will find the EPICS career assessment tool compatible with a broad range of diverse populations. Organizations working with Hidden Populations have found the unique and assessable approach of the EPICS assessment especially successful in starting career exploration and customized employment plans. All learners can benefit from EPICS’s visual and universal design for exploring and processing career development. EPICS has been particularly successful with special education, non-traditional learners, and special populations.

In addition to our services, our uniquely crafted EPICS Assessment Workbook and activities identifies and illuminate professional and soft skill sets, key personnel, and professional motivators and values.

*The $395 price is for your school or facility, with an enrollment of up to 500. Please contact us if your enrollment exceeds 500 for pricing.

Education/Secondary Schools (Grades 5-12, Transition Programs)

Do you want a career exploration program that will engage your students?

Choosing a career is challenging and overwhelming, especially for a student or young adult. Keeping students engaged in their career exploration can be difficult for a school career counselor. The “Environment and Personality Intuitive Card Sort (EPICS)” points you in the right career direction, highlights your interests, and affirms your strengths.

Customized Employment Plans and Workforce Employment Agencies

Historically, career exploration and an individual plan for employment (IPE) begin with a pragmatic implementation of traditional vocational evaluations. These traditional methods are a one size fits all approach. Once all traditional evaluations and action plans have been exhausted, the discovery process is implemented into the individual’s IPE strategy.

Implementing the EPICS assessment in the discovery phase first meets people where they are. The EPICS assessment fosters trust and hope by allowing them to express their feelings about their life change and provides validation and positive feedback immediately while pointing them in a realistic direction. The EPICS assessment is universal, non-threatening, and uses images, so language and education level are not barriers.

Hidden and Special Populations

Traditional approaches often need to work better with hidden and special populations. People within these communities are especially at risk of not exploring or reaching their full potential. Some reasons are that they do not do well in answering questions, may not be able to verbalize their feelings, and have difficulty performing tasks and completing assignments. Other challenges may be intellectual, mental challenges and focus. Having a fragmented and limited experience in the workforce, they may need more self-confidence and self-esteem.

Job seekers living on the fringe, such as homeless, delinquent, immigrants, and refugees, may not have the resources available in other communities.

What are some of the typical obstacles job seekers face:

• They are basing self-worth on others’ perceptions of them or their thoughts.
• Lacking the confidence, motivation, support system, experience
• One’s past, and especially failures, will determine one’s future.
• Long-felt feelings of oppression make it challenging to feel upbeat or optimistic about their future
• You are not feeling heard, understood, or incapable of accurately expressing one’s needs.
• Taking a job recommended to you but wanting to do something else
• Not having the resources (time, money, support) available to try a new job

How to overcome these obstacles in career development?

EPICS’ intuitive and right-brained assessment and activities provide valuable and informative for every age. The EPICS assessment offers insightful knowledge about what keeps your interest and makes you feel content. Your EPICS results will SURPRISE you! Below are some fantastic things that make EPICS outstanding amongst other programs.

• An imagery-based card sort that engages the assessment taker
• No tedious answering of multiple-answer questions
• Creative right-brained strategies
• Engaging and fun videos and helpful links
• Activities for counselors to use the EPICS program in a group
• Fun handouts such as the EPICS Planner, SkillSet SnapShot, word searches, & workbooks
• Self-directed activities focusing on personal strengths and what makes a career meaningful
• Excellent for all learners and those in special populations, ESL, and at-risk programs.

65% of the population are visual learners, and 60-80% of learning today is through optical technology. It is a picture-based inventory tool providing a visual career assessment incorporating intuitive and cognitive processes. This amalgamation creates a universal design for learning and processing experiences for all levels of education and intellect.

Researched-based, the EPICS assessment combines the Holland codes (RIASEC), intuition, and visual processing with brain science to reveal an individual’s strengths and interests first before creating an IPE or customized employment plan. Each person receives a 3-letter Holland code that can be used to look up occupations unique to the same 3-letter code. The Department of Labor, O*Net, and other institutions use the Holland code. The EPICS’ results can alleviate extra steps in the services offered in career development and portray a more authentic portrait leading to a more positive and successful career pathway and life.

The workplace is an important part of our daily lives. It’s where we spend most of our time interacting with colleagues and clients. Creating a positive and productive environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and innovation is crucial. This can be achieved through flexible work arrangements, regular team-building activities, and open communication channels. By prioritizing the well-being and satisfaction of employees, we can create a workplace that benefits the individual and the organization as a whole. A positive and concrete perception is formed when an individual projects himself, herself, or themselves into the image and links it to personal experience, interests, strengths, personality traits, and biases within seconds.

EPICS assessment offers the ability to recognize self-knowledge, improve self-esteem and provide self-validation. The confidence received through positive validation raises morale, encourages motivation, creates trust, and realizes that their past will not determine their future.

What’s the solution?

65% of the population are visual learners, and 60-80% of learning is through optical technology. Visual literacy is necessary to keep abreast of the evolving times. Work is the second largest activity we do in life; our work must align with our professional and personal values. Providing a visual career assessment program incorporates the intuitive process with the cognitive, creating a universal design for the learning and processing experience. Being versatile, a visual assessment has the potential to tap into interests and possible vocations which may need to be explored due to the inability to verbalize a concept or other barriers. 

The EPICS assessment establishes a person–environment congruence by manifesting a concrete perception. This accurate perception is formed when an individual project themself into the image and incorporates influential emotions and intuitive elements. By using the language of vision, the mind considers the colors, forms, images, any emotional connection, and experiences references and, in a few seconds, links it to personal experience interests, personal personality traits, and biases.

The EPICS assessment offers jobseekers the ability to recognize self-knowledge, improve confidence and provide self-validation. At the same time, they strive towards economic self-sufficiency by identifying career pathways that align with values, interests, and goals. 

The EPICS can be used to jump-start conversations with results that are unique to the individual. The person-centered methodology springboards into the realm of possibilities with an inclusive approach. This perspective considers life/work/culture/talents/interests- where everything counts when formulating a strategy. 

Job seekers aim to identify a “good fit” career options during the discovery phase of customized employment plans. EPICS identifies career pathways and occupations utilizing brain science to elicit responses. EPICS utilizes intuition (gut responses from emotions, interests, and experience), creating concrete and cognitive results for the job seeker to identify a career pathway and occupation.

Customized career planning should be an ongoing process that influences the job seeker’s work and home life to satisfy goals and support individual needs. Career planning involves a team of professionals acquainted with the jobseeker, their family, and the community. This team accesses resources such as assessments, activities, and workbooks to create a descriptive vocational profile that combines the whole person, amalgamating interests, experience, skills, and aspirations to create a great job match.

The EPICS program can help workers address needs by bringing awareness and understanding to learning and communicative styles in different situations.

The EPICS assessment is a picture career interest inventory that can be used for all learners, and job seekers. The EPICS assessment is incredibly successful for individuals with disabilities, career development for exceptional students, and used in the discovery phase in customized employment plans.