Efficiency First

Do you want to know how your skills compare to Home Performance Industry needs?

In an effort to help job seekers identify which careers might be right for them, the Home Performance Resource Center (Resource Center) has created the Career Resource section to provide key job profiles and additional resources for self-assessment and job training. The overview contains an employment picture that outlines the growth of the Home Performance industry, as well as identifying positions that the industry will be looking to expand. The profiles page includes six video profiles on key Home Performance professionals at all levels of experience. The information page allows interested job seekers to review tasks, key characteristics, salary expectations, and minimum educational requirements.

This newly developed website section also highlights a new tool, the Home Performance Careers Self-assessment, to assess skills and preferences as they pertain to Home Performance sector needs. This tool assesses your preferences and skills in five areas: physical aptitude, social and technical problem solving, basic construction knowledge, sales skills, and work environment preferences. The skills and preferences that are assessed through the Career Self-assessment align with the profiles outlined in the profile page and informational pages within the Career Resources website. This tool enables participants to assess their fit in the Home Performance Industry and help them match their skills with key skills needed in this industry. The Self-assessment takes users an average of 20 minutes to complete. When users have completed their Self-assessment they will be issued their results in real time. Users can also email their results to themselves and other interested parties.

The content (including text, video profiles, and the self-assessment tool) of HPR Center’s Career Resources pages were developed in part through a partnership with the Home Energy Retrofit Occupations (HERO) Program. The work was produced in cooperation with Efficiency First,  and Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI) who served as a project manager. To learn more about key job profiles and to take the self-assessment go to the Career Resource section of the HPR Center website, a subsidiary of Efficiency First.