Unexpectedly Unemployed? Free Help from ERI Economic Research Institute

April 20, 2009 - PRLog -- REDMOND, WA - If you are without a job, now might be the ideal time to review your skills and interests and see how they match various jobs. Available for your personal use at no cost, ERI (http://www.erieri.com) offers a tool that has long been used by human resource professionals to assess the specific skills, knowledge sets, and mental and physical capacities needed for various jobs and find which local companies might be potential employers.

ERI Economic Research Institute's Occupational Assessor™ (http://www.erieri.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=eDOT.Main) is an easy-to-use program that provides information concerning 99 characteristics of work for over 10,000 unique jobs found in the US today. The software helps assess abilities and interests and matches them to the requirements for actual jobs. When a user finds jobs of interest, the software then locates employers within commuting distance that employ people in these specific jobs, provides job availability statistics, and even links to online job postings within the commuting range.

According to ERI's founding director, Dr. David Thomsen, "Job search at the personal level is all about minimizing rejection. ERI's software identifies jobs that fit and local employers likely, or visibly, posting openings for these jobs, while providing contact names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers. Because this program increases the odds of a successful job search in these tough times, ERI has decided to make this program available at no cost."

You can use ERI's Occupational Assessor for many tasks:

   * Identify your education, achievements, skills, present residence, and any limitations on physical and mental capacities;
   * Review the jobs found nationally or locally for which your capacities and past training might qualify you;
   * Receive three estimations of the number of these jobs within your area, region, or state;
   * Generate a list of employers within commuting radius and a list of employers that are most likely to have the identified positions within their workforces;
   * Review a list of job board postings by matched employer, area, and/or industry to see if any of these employers might now have "the right job at the right time in the right place";
   * All this, at no cost!

Increase the possibilities for success in your job search by going to the ERI web site at (http://www.erieri.com) and downloading the Demo Edition of the Occupational Assessor. Enhanced versions of the software for consultants and vocational experts are also available for purchase.

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About ERI Economic Research Institute: Based in Redmond, Washington, ERI provides salary survey and cost-of-living research reports and software to over 15,000 organizations worldwide. With information gathered from online surveys and an extensive survey library, ERI provides subscribers with assessments on salary, relocation, the cost of living, and executive compensation. ERI's pay data covers the United States, Canada, and the EU. Its industry-leading Executive Compensation Assessor® & Survey software reports executive cash compensation based on information from private executive pay surveys, as well as publicly reported information for 6,500 US, 1,150 Canadian, and 2,300 UK and EU organizations. Visit http://www.erieri.com to learn more about ERI and to review its other talent management and compensation indices.