JOBehaviors Assessments are a Fast, Consistent Way for Students to Discover Whether they’re a Strong Match for a Career in Trucking and Transportation (and Beyond).

 

by:  Dylan Tinney, Partnerships, JOBehaviors

“What do you want to be when you grow up? What’s your plan after school?”

For high school students who aren’t sure of their next step, these questions can cause anxiety. The pressure is on from adults at home and at school.

But the pressure comes with few tools that actually help students discover what career paths will bring them success and fulfillment. Without a predictive tool, the path to finding a student’s calling in life can be long and winding.

JOBehaviors Shows Students which Careers will Deliver Success and Fulfillment Specifically for Them

Enter JOBehaviors predictive career assessments. The laser-focused, online assessments show students in about 10 minutes how likely they are to find success and fulfillment in a specific career, including a variety in trucking and transportation.

Unlike anything else on the market, JOBehaviors assessments are behaviorally-engineered to determine whether students will naturally seek out and love to do the things that make top performers successful and satisfied each day.

Once student’s find their career match based on behavioral fit, then schools and training programs can arm them with the technical skills and knowledge they’ll need to succeed.

JOBehaviors Predicts Training Graduation and Success Rates

As a case study: a major carrier who owns and operates a truck driver training school tested over 600 driving training students before they enrolled in the carrier’s Class-A CDL training program.

  • -          93% of the students who the JOBehaviors assessment determined as a strong match for the truck driving career graduated the training program, earned their Class-A CDL, and were hired by the company
  • -          84% of students who did NOT register a strong match based on their assessment results, decided to exit the training program early, and decided to pursue a different career

Key takeaway: students who score a strong match on the assessment were nearly 7X more likely to complete training, earn their certification and find success in the career path.

Shedding Light on Trucking Career Paths

For students and families who might not be considering a career in trucking and transportation, high scores on the assessment often spark curiosity and give them the confidence to consider it as a potential path forward.

A great example of this is seen by Dave Dein at Patterson High School who offered the assessments to 135 juniors this spring. As a result, 5X more female students enrolled in the upcoming school year’s truck driving course than in the past 3 years. This points to the fact that their strong match gave them the confidence to explore a career path that they normally wouldn't have been exposed to.  

More Opportunities than Just Behind the Wheel

There are a number of highly important roles in the trucking industry beyond getting behind the wheel. With JOBehaviors, students can explore a number of pathways to success in transportation. Students assessment results will unlock training and recruiting opportunities that will set them on a path to success.

In the transportation sector alone, JOBehaviors offers predictive career assessments for the following roles:

-          Class-A CDL Driver

-          Line Haul Driver

-          Delivery Driver

-          Diesel Technician

-          Freight Handler

-          Warehouse Manager

-          Order Selector

-          Customer Service Representative

-          School Bus Driver

-          Motor Coach Driver

If you’re a student interested in a career in transportation, take a no-cost assessment at www.nextgentrucking.org and click "Take Free Assessment" and learn if trucking is a good fit for you.

If you’re a school administrator, give your students meaningful career-insight that will unlock training and employment opportunities today.

 

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