Childcare Worker
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
Top activities and tasks for this job:
- Maintain a safe play environment.
- Observe and monitor children's play activities.
- Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
- Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
- Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
- Sanitize toys and play equipment.
- Dress children and change diapers.
- Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
About the test (Full Version)
The HR Avatar Childcare Worker Pre-Employment Assessment was designed to help you hire staff in this role. The test provides a whole-person evaluation by measuring job-relevant cognitive ability, personality, knowledge, skills, and relevant behavioral history.
Each component provides important data for hiring decisions. Cognitive ability has been linked to overall job performance in most jobs and correlates with a candidate's
ability to learn new skills and to solve complex problems. Personality characteristics determine how well the candidate will fit-in with a corporate culture. Knowledge and skills indicate how much training will be needed before a new employee becomes productive. Finally, relevant behavioral history detects counter-productive behaviors that can impact job performance.
The Childcare Worker test includes an animated work simulation in which candidates meet customers, colleagues and supervisors in a job-related context. Post-test surveys indicate the majority of candidates react favorably to these simulations.
The specific attributes measured include:
Cognitive Ability
- Analytical Thinking and Attention to Detail
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Knowledge and Skills
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Personality
- Adaptability
- Drive
- Integrity
- Teamwork
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Emotional Intelligence
- Empathy and Emotional Self-Control
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Behavioral History
- History Survey - Performance
- History Survey - Tenure
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Following completion, the test produces a Candidate Selection Report that includes an overall score and detailed scores for each attribute. The overall score weighs each of the factors based on research and analysis from the U.S. Government's Occupational Information Network (O*Net). O*Net represents over a decade of dedicated research evaluating the relative importance of various factors that lead to success in almost 1,000 different job roles.
The Candidate Selection Report also provides expert interview questions that help you probe critical or low-scoring areas, along with a guide for noting your evaluation of the candidate's responses. Consistent use of an interview guide is an important part of gaining better candidate insights and making better hiring decisions.
More information about this Job
| Annual US Wages (2019) |
| Bottom 10%: | | $18,000 or less |
| Bottom 25%: | | $20,210 or less |
| Median: | | $24,230 (Average) |
| Top 25%: | | $29,220 or more |
| Top 10%: | | $35,800 or more |
| Hourly US Wages (2019) |
| Bottom 10%: | | $8.65 or less |
| Bottom 25%: | | $9.72 or less |
| Median: | | $11.65 (Average) |
| Top 25%: | | $14.05 or more |
| Top 10%: | | $17.21 or more |
| US Employment Statistics |
| 2018: | | 1,160,000 |
| 2028 (projected): | | 1,187,700 |
| Annual U.S. Job Openings: | 177,900 |
Top Knowledge Requirements
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Education and Training
- Public Safety and Security
- Psychology
- Administration and Management
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Top Skills
- Monitoring
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Coordination
- Instructing
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Top Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Written Comprehension
- Deductive Reasoning
- Far Vision
- Speech Recognition
- Written Expression
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| Education Requirements |
| No High School Diploma: | | 7% |
| High School Diploma: | | 19% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate: | | 3% |
| Some College: | | 5% |
| Associate's Degree (2 yr): | | 11% |
| Bachelor's Degree: | | 4% |
| This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role who have their highest education in each category. |
| Related Work Experience Requirements |
| None: | | 10% |
| Less than 1 Month: | | 7% |
| 3 - 6 Months: | | 2% |
| 6 Months - 1 Year: | | 5% |
| 1 - 2 Years: | | 17% |
| 2 - 4 Years: | | 8% |
| This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role whose related work experience before they entered this position falls into each category. |
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