When It Is Used
Use it when a person is receiving individualized employment or education support and the practitioner needs enough person-specific information to guide planning.
IPS Career Profile
The IPS Career Profile is a collaborative employment and education planning tool for practitioners supporting individualized services. It helps practitioners organize a person's goals, strengths, experience, preferences, circumstances, and support needs into a current profile for job or education matching decisions.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
The profile organizes goals, strengths, experience, preferences, circumstances, and support needs. It does not collect unsupported ratings, scores, clinical conclusions, or automated job recommendations.
History
Profiles can be partial or updated over time. Prior versions remain useful because preferences and circumstances may change.
Does the IPS Career Profile recommend jobs?
No. It organizes reported vocational information so the practitioner can use judgment in employment or education planning.
Can the person complete it with the practitioner?
Yes. The supplied configuration supports collaborative completion with plain-language prompts and the ability to skip unknown items.
Are there configurable settings?
No. The supplied record supports the fixed IPS Career Profile tool, not practitioner-defined settings.
What happens to sample demo content when I save?
Sample content is not saved as real client data. Saving adds the tool itself to the practitioner account.