Abstract: Apparatus for use in performing an employability skills assessment for assessing employability skills of an assessee, the apparatus including an electronic processing device that identifies at least one rater in accordance with input commands from an assessee, transfers a number of questions to the at least one rater via a communications network, the questions relating to employability skills of the assessee, receives responses to the number of questions from the at least one rater via a communications network and determines an employability skills rating at least partially using the responses, the employability skills rating being at least partially indicative of the assessee's employability skills.