Earning Capacity Assessments

Vocational assessments are a speciality of ECA and involve an experienced vocational consultant reviewing documentary material, including reports of experts in the assessment of physical and psychological capacity for work

In most cases the vocational consultant will also interview the subject of the assessment either in person or by telephone or video-link.

The vocational consultant will then carefully consider all of the vocationally relevant information about the subject of the assessment, and any specific requirements of the client or the purpose for which the assessment will be used, to identify suitable work options for the subject of the assessment.

In most cases labour market investigation assessment reports will also be prepared to provide you with labour market information about the work options identified as suitable.

If you would like a current assessment of physical capacity for work and/or psychological capacity for work to be completed as part of the vocational assessment we recommend ordering one of our integrated earning capacity assessments that include physical and/or psychological assessments of the capacity to work.

What does a vocational assessment include?

Depending on your requirements, the issues addressed by the vocational assessment report may include:

• Review of documentary material relevant to the physical capacity for work of the subject of the assessment.
• Review of documentary material relevant to the psychological capacity for work of the subject of the assessment.
  
• Assessment of education, training and experience and transferable skills
• Selection of work options that are suitable having regard to capacity for work and other vocationally relevant factors

Every vocational assessment report contains a careful and detailed analysis of the match between the subject and the work option.

Once suitable work options have been identified it is common to also undertake labour market investigations to establish for a specific labour market:

• The number of people are currently employed in that work option
• The level of activity in the work option
  
• The specific requirements of a jobs in the labour market
• The expected or likely level of earnings of people employed in that work option

What do the integrated earning capacity assessments involve?

If you would like the vocational consultant to interview the subject of the assessment, we will arrange for the vocational consultant to interview the subject either in person, or by telephone or video link.

If you would like the vocational consultant to prepare an assessment using supplied documentation, forward the documentation to our office.

If you would like the subject to have a physical or psychological assessment of their capacity to work to be performed we recommend that you order one our integrated earning capacity assessments that include expert physical and/or psychological assessments of the capacity to work.

How to order

Ordering an ECA vocational assessment is very easy.

You can call us on 1300 72 34 71

Or

Just press the “Book Report” button and complete our simple on-line booking form.

A member of our team will then call you to discuss your requirements and to make an assessment booking.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to call and ask to speak to a member of our team.

For some of our products we have de-identified sample reports available for review. Please contact our office if you are interested in seeing a de-identified sample report.

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