EPICS: A DIFFERENT KIND OF CAREER EXPLORATION
EPICS uses imagery and intuitive strategies combined with brain science to identify career opportunities, professional development, personal growth, and future happiness
Your EPICS journey is a self directed program that helps you find the right career for YOU. Right-brained strategies offer a different kind of exploration to find meaningful work. All you have to do is look at images!
EPICS career licenses are for organizations that work in secondary education, special education, transition programs, employment services, customized employment programs, and employee development and engagement.
Training is for facilitators to use the EPICS assessment inventory tool at their work and/or their private practice. EPICS careers also offers professional development workshops on-site and virtually with attendance certificates.
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The Environment and Personality Intuitive Card Sort (EPICS) is a new, visually literate, universal career inventory assessment tool for all learners and ages. The EPICS assessment and corresponding activities meet and engage participants at their level. The motivating activities brings awareness to employment needs, soft skills and personal and professional values, which aid in producing realistic lifestyle goals and career choices. Because it is easy to use, its non-threatening approach and takes about 15 minutes to complete, it has been extremely successful in helping special and hidden population clients. EPICS can serve any facility in the USA.
FAQ: Your EPICS Assessment
Question: How long does it take to complete the EPICS Assessment?
It takes the average person 12-15 minutes to complete the assessment and receive their results. Your results are either saved to your account if you take the assessment on your own or to be emailed to your coach/counselor /our email.
Question: Is the EPICS assessment made up of just pictures or is reading involved?
The EPICS assessment is made up of images/pictures. When looking at a picture in the assessment, you respond by clicking the yes button -“you are interested in or learning more about it” or the no button- “not at all”. The instructions are written as well as your EPICS results. There is an option to take the assessment in Espanõl, and most activites are in Espanõl and Portuguēs as well.
Question: What do you learn from your results?
Your results are made up using the Holland codes. There are six themes that are prevalent in one’s personality and environment. Your results will show your three top dominant themes in both your personality and environment, creating a profile that you will thrive in.
Question: Are your results permanent or can they change?
Interests change over time, whether they be for a career or for your personal life. As you meet new people, experience new places and are exposed to different situation, your interest peak and wane. They also change as well as you move through your life span. It never hurts to retake an assessment after a year or so. At EPICS, we called this a Career Wellness Check-up.
Question: Do you need to work with a career coach?
No, the EPICS assessment and all the activities are available once you create an account and purchase the assessment. There are fillable pdf’s you can use and activities such as visualizations and goal boards to do. If you want to work with a career coach, there is a list of coaches on the website that have been trained in the EPICS program or you can send the results to your own coach.
Question: Are the results useful for students discovering a career pathway as well as adults interested in changing careers or adding to their career?
Yes, the EPICS assessment is a universal assessment designed for all ages and learners. It can be used to find the best fit career, to discover ways to make your work/life more meaningful or what organization to volunteer at.
Question: Is the EPICS assessment good for individuals with disabilities?
Yes! The EPICS assessment has been very successful with special education, the discovery phase of customized employment and in special populations (e.g. ESL learners, incarcerated, and economical disadvantaged individuals…) Since it is made up of pictures, it is universal overcoming obstacles like language, culture and expectations of family members and friends.