Dealing with job loss is difficult, and each of your client's reactions to unemployment is unique.

With JIST's new assessment, the Re-Employment Success Inventory, your clients can identify how they are effectively coping with unemployment and how they are not. They will also develop skills and strategies for quickly re-entering the workforce.

Your clients can complete the RESI in 20 minutes or less!

• Step one: Respond to 50 statements.
• Step two: Score responses.
• Step three: Profile scores in five unemployment coping categories.
• Step four: Reflect on ways to more effectively deal with unemployment.
• Step five: Create a re-employment success plan.

Topics covered

The RESI addresses five major stress-related areas of unemployment.

• Stress management:
  Effectiveness in managing stress and the symptoms that accompany stress
• Money management:
  Effectiveness in dealing with spending, saving, and managing finances while unemployed
• Social support:
  Effectiveness in developing a system of people and resources for support in the transition from unemployment to employment
• Job search:
  Effectiveness in developing a job search plan that utilizes a variety of strategies and resources
• Career plan:
  Effectiveness in rethinking your career development, having a comprehensive career plan, and setting short- and long-term career goals

Benefits to using the RESI

• You will identify each client's unique needs and can tailor your employment services to address those needs.
• Clients can easily complete this self-directed tool without needing instructions from you. The RESI is ideal for programs that are short on time and staff.
• A free administrator's guide includes additional information about how to help your clients overcome the stress of unemployment and reenter the workforce.

Click here for Free Administrator's Guide (PDF)