YouScience
YouScience is a Brentwood, Tennessee-based technology company that provides career assessment testing services, founded in 2012 by Richard Patton, the chief executive of Courage Capital Management, and Betsy Wills, an entrepreneur. In 2013, the company launched Latitude, a two-hour online assessment which measures on interests and abilities providing a report on appropriate careers. In the fall of 2017, the Metro Nashville Public Schools district began using the company's tests as on about 4,000 freshmen students, as part of a $30,000 pilot program. In February 2018, it was reported that leaders of some manufacturing and building companies in Georgia were using YouScience tests to recruit young workers.
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The test consists of an aptitudes section, in which participants complete brief exercises, sometimes referred to as "brain games", with a time limit. The other half of the test is the interests section, which involves asking participants to answer questions about themselves. Each participant then receives a resulting list of skills and jobs for which they might be well-suited. When the company studied its test results, it found that most students had aptitude for manufacturing and technology jobs, but few had an interest in them.
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The test consists of an aptitudes section, in which participants complete brief exercises, sometimes referred to as "brain games", with a time limit. The other half of the test is the interests section, which involves asking participants to answer questions about themselves. Each participant then receives a resulting list of skills and jobs for which they might be well-suited. When the company studied its test results, it found that most students had aptitude for manufacturing and technology jobs, but few had an interest in them.
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