This introductory license offers the flexibility to try EPICS with a smaller cohort of students, online or in the classroom.
What’s included
- Unique URL for your school
- Onboarding for facilitators/educators/counselors for your school
- 90 minute webinar on how to use the program and interpret results of the assessment
- 100 assessments
- Overview of all activities included in the program
- Certificate for 1.5 professional development hours certificate is given on completion.
A Different Kind of Career Exploration is a program that offers intuitive insight about your personality, the kind of environment you thrive in, what motivates you, and your personal and professional values and skill sets.
EPICS Distinctive Features
- Intrinsic Interest
- Brain Science
- Visual Literacy
- Cognitive Coaching
- Right Brain Strategies
You will find the EPICS assessment tool compatible with a range of diverse populations.The visual and universal design for learning and processing with all learners, and has been particularly successful with special education, non-traditional learners and special populations.
In addition to our services, our uniquely crafted workbook identifies and illuminates professional and soft skill sets, as well as key personnel and professional motivators and values.
EPICS is currently utilized by schools in Connecticut, Washington DC, Arkansas and at Connecticut’s Department of Aging and Disability, the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services and state vocational agencies.
Education/Schools
Do you want career development program that will engage your students?
Choosing a career is challenging and overwhelming, especially for a student or young adult. As a school career counselor, keeping a student engaged in their career exploration can be difficult. The “Environment and Personality Intuitive Card Sort (EPICS)” points you in the right career direction, brings to light interests, and affirms what your strengths are.
Our intuitive and right-brained assessment and activities are valuable and informative for every age. Taking the EPICS assessment provides insightful knowledge about what keeps your interest and makes you feel content. What your students and school will get from “EPICS” will SURPRISE you! Below are some amazing things that make EPICS outstanding amongst other programs.
- An imagery based card sort which engages the students
- No tedious answering of multiple answer questions
- Creative right-brained strategies
- Engaging and fun videos and helpful links
- Parent pages
- Templates for counselors to use EPICS in a group
- Fun handouts such as word searches and crossword puzzles
- Self directed activities focusing on personal strengths and what makes a career meaningful
- Excellent for all students as well as those in special education, ESL, and at-risk programs.
Employee personal growth and Career mindfulness
At EPICS: Career Finder, we believe in helping people discover what they know intuitively about themselves. This knowledge can be the secret to finding personal fulfillment and satisfaction. Understanding one’s personal mode of expression and setting can make the difference between communicating effectively, and feeling satisfied or being frustrated and uncomfortable.
Being career mindful, your employees can investigate ways to improve, advance, and learn new skills to enhance their own personal and professional growth; it’s like a career tune-up! Your EPICS results can dramatically impact your life by making your world a better place.
STUDIES SHOW… that providing self-help and personal growth opportunities for employees lead to happier and more productive work environments.
- Productivity A recent study by economists at the University of Warwick found that happiness led to a 12% spike in productivity, when employees reported being happy, having invigorating positive emotions, while unhappy employees productivity nose-dived 10%. *
- “Financial incentives aren’t enough to make for highly productive employees. Professor Andrew Oswald, one of three researchers who led the study, said companies that invest in employee support and satisfaction tend to succeed in generating happier workers.”*
- At Google, initiating such programs lead to a 37% employee satisfaction. *
- “Shawn Anchor, author ofThe Happiness Advantage, has found that the brain works much better when a person is feeling positive. At those times, individuals tend to be more creative, better at solving problems and are more effective collaborators.*
* Why Happy Employees Are 12% More Productive
Like the DISC assessment, Myer-Briggs and many other assessments, EPICS can be used as a personal development exercise for your employees. Activities help individuals explore new interests as well as unearth old passions.
EPICS can be used as a self-directed program, in a group setting and be tailored to meet your company’s needs.
Non-profit/Work placement/Rehabilitation
Using EPICS assessment in non-traditional settings such as rehabilitation, at-risk and transitioning programs, juvenile detention, and correctional institutions, helps the individual to form realistic goals. The individual’s results reaffirm what he or she knows about himself or herself, validates personal feelings and self worth. Understanding the importance of personal expression and preferred environments can help to overcome barriers, in a non-judgmental approach. Since there are no right or wrong responses to the imagery, an individual does not feel intimidated to answer honestly and authentically.
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