Product Updates

September 2022

Live chat support

Live chat to provide real-time support for you and your students from the Human eSources Customer Care team during business hours. Look for the orange question mark in the bottom right when logged into your account or accessing our products.

December 17, 2021

Enhancements and updates to careers

• We have changed our privacy policy and cookie handling to reflect GDPR requirements
• Career matching algorithm has been updated to use the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the O*NET version 25.2 career database
• New visually appealing and convenient graphical interface for career descriptions
• Every career has a “Compared to you” section that compares an individual’s assessment results against job requirements and skills
• Improved wage illustrations
• Job outlook forecasts through 2029

September 16, 2021

Careers update

As part of exciting enhancements coming later this year, our career data now aligns with O*NET 25.2 database, which includes updated wage information.

June 2021

Support widget now available in product

Find answers to your most frequently asked questions, resources, and the ability to submit a support request in the support widget. The support widget is located in the bottom right corner of your account and will quickly get you the answers you need.

September 17, 2020

Further linking careers to education

Individual career profiles within the Career Center may now list one or more Educational Programs in addition to Education Level on the Overview tab. Educational Programs classify the instructional programs and descriptions – at all levels – for a particular career. It may include degrees, certificates, advanced professional certification, personal improvement and leisure programs, diplomas, and certificates, making Educational Programs a valuable tool for deeper career and education exploration.

AchieveWorks Personality & TruTalent Personality report enhancement

In response to the prevalence of individuals involved in distance learning and telecommuting, our personality result reports now include new “learning and working from home” content. The new content provides recommendations for learning/school activities, preferred environment, communication, and working with others based on an individual’s personality results.

Streamlined career navigation

When users have multiple AchieveWorks or TruTalent results with career matching available, their default view in Career and Pathways can now be set at the account level to Combined Results. This reduces the time and effort spent cross-referencing individual career results suggestions. Individual results for personality, intelligences and/or skills are still available within the accompanying report, as well as in the Career Center. Please contact Customer Care to have the Combined Results set as the default for your account.

In addition, individuals can now jump to the Career and Pathways section within their personality, intelligences, and/or skills report via the View Careers button displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Summer 2020

AchieveWorks and TruTalent branding update

We’ve refreshed the look of logos for our two assessments suites, AchieveWorks and TruTalent, as well as the Human eSources logo. We hope you like them as much as we do!

July 26, 2019

New look for center.humanesources.com

• New look is now mobile responsive for smartphones and tablets.
• Easier for individuals to find what they need quickly from their homepage or top navigation.

AchieveWORKS Skills updates

• There are now 5 major skills instead of 6, as Commitment and Systems have been merged into the skill Conscientiousness.
• The number of skill facets has been reduced from 19 to 15.
• Several skill facets have been combined into one – Receptiveness and Perception are now Consideration, Planning and Organization are now Organization, and Openness, Optimism and Acceptance are together under Self-awareness.
• The names of some skill facets have been updated to increase clarity and alignment: Ambition → Achievement, Principled → Discipline, Charisma → Influence, Practical → Practicality, Networking → Sociability.
• Access to recommendations for improvement has been moved to Developing Your Skills section (formerly called All Skill Facets).
• Section locations have been rearranged: Introduction, Major skills (in order of result ranking), Career and Pathways, and Develop Your Skills.

February 15, 2019

AchieveWORKS Personality, Skills and Intelligences

• Summary report now contains only saved careers based on an individual’s results.

AchieveWORKS Skills

• Compare to Me feature compares an individual’s skills and the skills typical for a particular career, allowing for more detailed guidance on areas of possible improvement.
• An easy to view and print report summary is now available; contains a description and results for each skill, results for each skill facet, saved careers, and related badges.

College & Career Success

• Streamlined appearance improves how the program displays on mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones.
• Notes and highlighting are available in a collapsible right-side panel with search, sort and visibility options for each page.
• Individuals can now add notes and highlight within all sections from Center (does not apply for Canvas and Blackboard users).
• Course copy for Canvas LTI users makes creating new sections easier with a simple, one-step process using course copy.

CollegeScope

• Streamlined appearance improves how the program displays on mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones.
• Notes and highlighting are available in a collapsible right-side panel with search, sort and visibility options for each page.
• Individuals can now add notes and highlight within all sections from Center (does not apply for Canvas and Blackboard users).
• Course copy for Canvas LTI users makes creating new sections easier with a simple, one-step process using course copy.

August 23, 2018

AchieveWORKS Skills is now available

• To Do List item in Center reminds students of next steps to complete the assessment
• Report has 6 macroskill sections: commitment, creativity, critical thinking, leadership, social-emotional, and systems based on results from individual skills
• Report recommendations include personal, work and academic examples with some links to external videos, activities or articles
• Section for All Individual Skills shows results for the 19 measured skills
• Chart in Pro Tools details the averaged score for each macroskill of a group
• Accuracy rating for each macroskill section shows you how students feel

Career Success

• Content updated to the 2nd edition

CollegeScope

• Students can now highlight and take notes on chapter pages
• Content has been updated based on recent occupational data

College & Career Success

• Students can now highlight and take notes on chapter pages
• Content has been updated based on recent occupational data

Pro Tools

• Group report available for AchieveWORKS Skills with aggregated scoring of macroskills

June 27, 2018

AchieveWORKS Skills

We are conducting research on a new assessment for skills. The current report includes a section on social-emotional skills, recommendations for each skill area, and matches to best career opportunities based on results. To try it yourself, go to www.humanesources.com/skills.

AchieveWORKS Intelligences

• Top careers for individual intelligences have been refined

Career Center

• Now has the ability to select multiple career clusters in filters for assessment reports

CollegeScope

• Chapter 6, page 3 now includes the AchieveWORKS Skills assessment
• Improved Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) & ADA compliance for text areas and those with hearing impairment
• Professionals can now see which pages students have accessed in their student portfolio
• In Canvas, the Class List screen has been reordered according to user feedback

College & Career Success

• Improved Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) & ADA compliance for text areas and those with hearing impairment
• Professionals can now see which pages students have accessed in their student portfolio
• In Canvas, the Class List screen has been reordered according to user feedback

Pro Tools

• Administrators using Canvas, Blackboard or D2L LMS accounts can now use Pro Tools to view student progress reports and aggregate reports for assessments
• Larger window size makes for easier reading of student assessment results in the student portfolio

April 2, 2018

Pro Tools

• Mark students report as read – student sees who reviewed the report and the date
• Account settings now include: showing wages for careers, determining the level of required education for careers, limiting professionals’ visibility of students to their own groups, and gender options

Career Center

• Added job outlook and education level to career profiles

AchieveWORKS / TruTalent

• Ability to view and print a one-page summary of reports
• Career and Pathways report section for Personality and Intelligences now show salary and education
• Career and Pathways report section for Personality and Intelligences can sort and filter careers by title, career cluster, education, outlook, salary and personal rating
• New icon to show the minimum level of education required (from 1-5) for a career
• Added job-rating functionality
• TruTalent Personality, Learning & Productivity, and Intelligences is now available! Assessments and their reports have been enhanced to better suit postsecondary career centers and the adult market

December 2017

College & Career Success (8th edition)

• Chapter content has been updated in response to faculty feedback as well as current research. Some of those updates include:
  • Chapter 1 has new research and material on mindset, grit and perseverance, while some previous content has been condensed.
  • The section on attention and concentration has been moved to chapter 7.
  • Added emphasis on succeeding in math, as it is the most failed subject in college and key to many high paying scientific and technical careers. How to take notes, study, take tests and deal with anxiety related to math are addressed.
  • Chapter 14 no longer discusses life stages.
  • Updated data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics covers income, education, jobs in demand and career trends.
• Do What You Are^® personality assessment has been updated with new interactive reports and name – AchieveWORKS™ Personality
• MI Advantage™ multiple intelligences assessment has been updated with emotional intelligences content, new interactive reports and name – AchieveWORKS Intelligences
• AchieveWORKS Learning & Productivity has been integrated into the content to help students understand how they can use all a multimodal approach to improve their learning by understanding their productivity preferences and preferred learning style – revealed in an interactive report
• Enhanced career database now includes over 900 career profiles including Indeed job search, the ability to see matches based on their personality and/or intelligences results, and an indicator for careers with a bright outlook

November 23, 2017

• Access keys will now be issued exclusively for use within Blackboard, Canvas, D2L or Human eSources’ environments
• Improved look and feel for printed assessment reports
• AchieveWORKS Personality is now available in Chinese
• Careers matches now show only the top three careers for each career area selected by the user in AchieveWORKS Personality
• Pro Tools has enhanced search functionality
• Security enhancements have been made to strengthen FERPA compliance

September 12, 2017

AchieveWORKS™ Assessment Suite

• An introduction screen will appear every time an assessment is accessed to help re-orient the user.
• Users may retake an assessment up to three times. Each iteration is saved for comparison. The user is asked their reason for taking the assessment again and professionals can see the reason provided.
• Career results are matched within the reports of AchieveWORKS Personality and AchieveWORKS Intelligences and in the Career Center. Equal weighting is applied to both assessments and results are restricted by the user’s top career interests (from AchieveWORKS Personality).
• The option to view All Careers has been added to both AchieveWORKS Personality and AchieveWORKS Intelligences reports.
• The user’s personality profile accuracy rating now displays in the AchieveWORKS Personality report for both individuals and professionals.
• Improved responsiveness on mobile devices.

July 27, 2017

• Launched our new AchieveWORKS Suite (AchieveWORKS Personality, AchieveWORKS Learning & Productivity, and AchieveWORKS Intelligences) to Independent Education Counselors and K-12 clients. Postsecondary versions are coming late Fall 2017. The same reliable and valid assessment now has a new and more dynamic, self-directed discovery process within the reports.
• Users will still enjoy the same reliable and valid assessments they’re used to, but each item is presented individually to allow for greater focus of attention.
• Introduction of pins and badges. Users earn a pin as they review each section of a report. When all the pins are earned in a report section, a completion badge is awarded for that section.
• Spanish translation is complete for all three assessment reports and career information. Other language translations are to follow shortly.
• New and improved career database includes the addition of almost 400 careers.
• Career data was updated to the latest 2017 O*NET information.
• Added outlook to the career list display to help individuals make more informed career choices.
• Refined career-matching algorithm targets careers the user is most interested in.
• Users now have the ability to take and save multiple iterations of the same assessment. If an individual has previously taken Do What You Are, the Learning Style Inventory, or MI Advantage, they still retain access to those results and are allowed to experience the AchieveWORKS assessments.

April 21, 2017

• Easier identification of access keys on the dashboard
• Improved shopping cart process when purchasing CollegeScope and College & Career Success from student portfolios
• Students can now edit their graduation year after registration
• Increased the number of files students can upload to their portfolio from three to ten
• Improved accessibility functionality

December 26, 2016

CollegeScope™ and College & Career Success

• Report improvements
• Incomplete journal entries can now be saved and resumed until the chapter is completed
• Separate reports for Do What You Are, The PEPS Learning Style Inventory and MI Advantage assessments are now available for CollegeScope and College & Career Success customers

Do What You Are^®

• Re-introduction of customized Do What You Are welcome letter for accounts
• Separate reports for Do What You Are, The PEPS Learning Style Inventory and MI Advantage assessments are now available for CollegeScope and College & Career Success customers

The Learning Style Inventory and The PEPS Learning Style Inventory

• Individuals with inconsistent answers will no longer be asked to repeat the assessment
• Separate reports for Do What You Are, The PEPS Learning Style Inventory and MI Advantage assessments are now available for CollegeScope and College & Career Success customers

MI Advantage™

• Separate reports for Do What You Are, The PEPS Learning Style Inventory and MI Advantage assessments are now available for CollegeScope and College & Career Success customers

Online purchases

• Improvements to our shopping cart and payment system
• Added PayPal as payment option for individuals and students

Pro Tools

• Improved navigation between sections, such as Individuals, Reports, etc.
• Now shows an individual’s last log in date, graduation year, and the groups they belong to
• New bookstore administrator account is now available to track Access Key inventory for physical cards
• Dashboard now has a link to the Help Center and provides more Access Key information to help you better utilize them
• Pro Tools Guide is now available in Spanish

August 30, 2016

Center

• Individuals can now upload 3 files (maximum 30 MB each) to their portfolio
• The most common file types (eg, images, MS Office files and PDFs) may be uploaded
• Professional accounts can view and delete the files.

CollegeScope™ and College & Career Success

• Professionals can now grade journals within CollegeScope and College & Career Success when they view student’s results
• Professionals using Canvas can now upload grades without error after changing the names or dates of assignments in Grade Center or Assignments
• Professionals using Canvas can see more than 10 students at a time
• Professionals using Blackboard and Canvas now see each student’s name on the chapter index page to assist with grading
• The chapter index page is now called Contents to better reflect the page’s subject matter

Do What You Are^®

• Rating direction of the Mini profile at the end of the assessment has changed (weakest to strongest rating) to better conform with other programs

Pro Tools

• Professionals can now delete any groups they have ownership or permissions for
• Resources have been updated
• Report enhancement for CollegeScope and College & Career Success – improved organization, display and calculation
• New languages available – Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese and Arabic

July 27, 2016

Center

• Job searches now use Indeed.com based on the job title and improved search functionality ensures a greater number of results.
• Career Center now uses National Career Clusters as a filter instead of career groups. Note: Careers listed under more than one Career Cluster will display multiple times in results.

CollegeScope™ and College & Career Success

• New Pro Tools report reveals students, their progress and grades within a table.
• Professionals can now grade student’s journal entries within Pro Tools under Chapter Results. Entries are graded from 0-5 and can include feedback to the student. A grading rubric, visible across all students, may be entered in the notes for each journal entry.
• Students can enter an Access Key or purchase the program from within Blackboard and Canvas using a Visa, MasterCard or Amex credit card.

Do What You Are^®

• Career survey now uses National Career Clusters to determine best career matches. Note: Individuals who have already completed the survey will continue to see career groups instead of Career Clusters in their report.
• Assessment setup now includes report blocking. Report blocking lets professionals control when individuals can see their assessment results. This is especially helpful for counselors who want to discuss the report in person.

The Learning Style Inventory / The PEPS Learning Style Inventory

• Assessment setup now includes report blocking. Report blocking lets professionals control when individuals can see their assessment results. This is especially helpful for counselors who want to discuss the report in person.

MI Advantage™

• Assessment setup now includes report blocking. Report blocking lets professionals control when individuals can see their assessment results. This is especially helpful for counselors who want to discuss the report in person.

Pro Tools

• New CollegeScope and College & Career Success report reveals students, their progress and grades within a table.
• Professionals can now grade student’s CollegeScope and College & Career Success journal entries under Chapter Results.
• Enhanced security
• Improved search functionality
• Groups now easier to access from the dashboard
• Assessment setup now includes report blocking for Do What You Are, The Learning Style Inventory, The PEPS Learning Style Inventory and MI Advantage.

June 7, 2016

We’ve been listening! Read on for details about the completed enhancements customers have requested:

• Welcome emails will now be sent out to all individuals with accounts for Center and Pro Tools.
• Pro Tools dashboard is full of useful shortcuts and information for your account and is the first thing you’ll see after logging in as a professional. Note: Professionals linked to multiple accounts will not see a dashboard.
• Resources section (in Pro Tools) is an easy place to find supporting materials for the programs you have. If you have students or clients just getting started in Center we recommend sharing the Quick Start Guide.
• The Learning Style Inventory and The PEPS Learning Style Inventory reports in Pro Tools now show the relative distribution of individuals in a group or for the entire account. Hovering the mouse over a section of the bar graph reveals the percentage of individuals with that particular preference.
• Professionals using CollegeScope and College & Career Success within Blackboard and Canvas can now add grades (out of 5), feedback and notes to student’s journal entries from the chapter results section.
• Note: This feature will be available to all professionals in a future release.
• Language and certain titles within Center and Pro Tools were previously student-focused. We have selected new wording and titles that better reflect our diverse client base (eg, individuals, groups, all).
• After 55 minutes individuals will receive a 5 minute warning before their inactive session ends. This gives time to prevent loss of work in CollegeScope and College & Career Success. Unfinished assessments will continue where individuals left off.
• Arabic has been added to the language options, with the exception of careers.
• Pro Tools has been translated from English into Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Simplified Chinese and Arabic.
• Career videos have been removed due to problems with the host site and outdated content.

February 25, 2016

• Product access keys are now available for Blackboard and Canvas LMS users.
• Language selected in Center (eg, Spanish, Portuguese) now carries over to Pro Tools for professionals.
• Do What You Are now allows professionals to set the personality type of a student if the original assessment was not accurate upon review.

December 2015

We are very pleased to announce that our new platform, Center and Pro Tools is now available! Effective this month, new customers will be set up in Center and Pro Tools and existing customers can request to be switched to the new system or wait until we notify you of your account update in the fall. Some of the changes you’ll notice are:

• Everyone can now to log in to their individual or professional account at www.humanesources.com, saving you the hassle of bookmarking or remembering your account-specific URL.
• Center (for individuals) and Pro Tools (for professionals) both have a completely new and modern look.
• Access keys will now provide access to programs. All students (or professionals) need to do is create an account and enter a 7-digit “access key”, or code, and the program(s) related to that code will be added to their account.
• Center guides individuals through the process with a “to do list” that asks them to take an assessment or start a program and explore the new career center. Individuals can also upload a picture to their account and manage which groups (classes) they belong to under My Groups.
• CollegeScope Student Success Program has been renamed College & Career Success for the 7th edition.
• Integration with both Blackboard and Canvas are now available for schools using those learning management system (LMS) and CollegeScope or College & Career Success.
• Professionals can now view individual book pages with a student’s completed work when checking progress and instructors can now import grades from CollegeScope and College & Career Success into Canvas and Blackboard.
• Chapter 9: Rights, Respect and Responsibility in CollegeScope includes new Title IX and Campus SaVE content.
• Customers of CollegePlannerPro can now use Do What You Are, MI Advantage and The Learning Style Inventory within their CollegePlannerPro account. Talk to us for details.

January 2015

After two years of development we’re proud to launch our newest student success program, CollegeScope. Inside the textbook are 9 chapters filled with topics relevant to success in a student’s first year of college: personal awareness, college awareness, career awareness, planning for success, learning and productivity, communication and collaboration, interaction and diversity, career readiness, and life skills. Includes a bonus chapter to help colleges meet Title IX and Campus SaVE Act requirements and more interaction than ever before, with quizzes, journal entries, activities and more!

July 2013

We’ve been busy this season, updating our products and working on some exciting new enhancements. You’ll notice a few changes when you return this fall. Here’s what we’ve done to improve your Human eSources experience:

Do What You Are^®

• Reduced length and improved reliability. The number of questions in Do What You Are has been reduced, making it quicker to complete. The wording has also been simplified and made more concise, improving reliability and making the assessment even more accessible to students.
• Instant job search. Simply Hired’s search has been integrated with the career list, allowing students to find jobs in their locale that match their career results.

The Learning Style Inventory

• Honesty audit. An improved consistency checker in the Learning Style Inventory encourages students to provide well-considered, truthful responses, ensuring they receive valid results.

MI Advantage™

• Quicker completion and greater reliability. The number of questions in MI Advantage has been reduced and a more effective range of responses has been introduced, making it faster to complete and providing more accurate results. We’ve also streamlined the wording to make it more manageable.
• Instant job search. Simply Hired’s search has been integrated with the career list, allowing students to find jobs in their locale that match their career results.

We’ve also used psychometric analysis to refine Do What You Are, the Learning Style Inventory and MI Advantage, resulting in greater accuracy and more precise results in all three products.

October 2012

Learning Style updated for enhanced usability

Customers of the Learning Style Inventory and the AchieveWorks℠ College Readiness Program will notice several changes to the learning style assessment .

• Faster to complete. The number of questions has been reduced to 69, speeding up the time to complete and removing several repetitive questions, while improving reliability and validity.
• Simplified preferences. The number of preferences covered has been streamlined to 16, removing redundancies for easier comprehension. Review the new list of preferences for 3rd to 12th grade.
• Updated suggestions. The included tips and strategies to build learning ability and increase productivity have been expanded.
• Refined reporting scale. Individuals’ results have been re-normalized with the most current data possible and the strength of a particular preference relative to the results of other individuals is now determined with greater precision.

As of October 1^st, 2012, individuals using any of the above programs will see the updated version. Please note that reports for previously completed assessments will not change. View the updated statistical analysis of the Learning Style Inventory. If you have questions about these changes, please visit the support page.

January 2012

CollegeScope™ Student Success Program Updates

• New chapter order places career chapters first to help with student motivation and educational planning. Part I: Career Success – Chapter 1: Understanding Motivation – Chapter 2: Exploring Your Personality and Major – Chapter 3: Learning Style and Intelligence – Chapter 4: Exploring Interests and Values – Chapter 5: Planning Your Career and Education Part II: College Success – Chapter 6: Managing Time and Money – Chapter 7: Improving Reading and Memory – Chapter 8: Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking – Chapter 9: Test Taking Part III: College Success – Chapter 10: Communication and Relationships – Chapter 11: Thinking Critically and Creatively – Chapter 12: Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle – Chapter 13: Appreciating Diversity – Chapter 14: Thinking Positively about the Future
• MI Advantage™, our new multiple intelligences assessment, will help students think positively and build confidence by discovering their intelligence strengths and linking those results to careers best suited to their particular intelligences. Learn more about MI Advantage here.
• Developing your e-learning style with new sections to help students to learn online.
• New graphics to illustrate major points and enhance visual learning.
• Revised journal entry requirements will help developmental students with writing skills by providing scaffolding such as topic sentences, brief outlines and lists of possible ideas to develop their responses. There are five to six journal entries per chapter.
• New Career Interest Profiler assessment to help students to identify their vocational interests and matching careers.
• Strengths-based focus as students explore their personality strengths, values, interests and multiple intelligences as a foundation for building lifelong personal and career success.
• Development of self-responsibility when students make good career choices, set goals for the future and manage time effectively to reach their goals.
• Emphasis on positive thinking and hope for the future by developing optimism, hope and future-mindedness to increase student success.
• Motivational quotes to inspire students to be successful.
• Humor with in-chapter cartoons designed to emphasize important topics.
• Updated career trends that include “green jobs”, jobs in technology and social media, healthcare and e-commerce.

January 2011

CollegeScope™ Student Success Program Updates

• All students begin CollegeScope for free! Students can complete the Content Survey (pre-test) and Chapter 1, Understanding Motivation, without an access code or fee. To access the remaining chapters and assessments, students pay online or use a simplified 6-digit access code they can purchase from the bookstore. This new feature will insure that all students get started within the critical first two weeks of the semester to maximize student retention and success.
• Two scholarships are provided for each course section. You will receive two free access codes for each course section which can be used to help students in need.
• Students will complete the assessments along with each matching chapter. Students will complete the Do What You Are^® personality assessment with the personality chapter and The PEPS Learning Style Inventory along with the learning style chapter.
• Enhanced faculty training is now available. All faculty members have access to training workshops. New online webinars are provided for individuals and small groups. Training includes basic navigation, getting the most from CollegeScope features, helping your students to log in and use the program, and administration of the assessments.