Interests - ANS-Interest inventories often used because they can be helpful in
describing general occupational interests
Counselors can also assess interests by using measures of expressed and manifest
interests
Interest inventories have been found to promote career exploration and connect the
client's interests to specific occupations
Common Interest Inventories - ANS-- Strong Interest Inventory
- Career Assessment Inventory
- Self-Directed Search
- Other instruments
O*NET Interests Profiler
Jackson Vocational Interest Survey
For elementary students: Career Finder, Judgment of Occupational
Behavior-Orientation (JOB-O), What I Like to Do (WILD)
For individuals with disabilities: Wide Range Interest-Opinion Test-Second Edition
Strong Interest Inventory - ANS-One of the most widely used instruments in counseling
Compares individuals' responses to items with response patterns of people in different
occupations
Appropriate for high school students, college students, and adults
Assesses preferences in occupations, subject areas, activities, leisure activities, people
and characteristics
, Abilities/Skills - ANS-- Assessment of abilities and skills often conducted to identify
occupational possibilities in which client could be successful
- Aptitude tests often used in career counseling because they are good predictors of
occupational success
- Important for counselors to verify aptitude assessment results with other information
Some common abilities/skills inventories
- Campbell Interest and Skills Survey
- Skills Confidence Inventory
- Self-estimates of Abilities (ability estimates & self-efficacy estimates)
Values - ANS-- Work values more highly correlated than interest with work satisfaction
(Rounds, 1990)
- No inventory is inclusive of all possible values
Clients may value something not assessed on instrument used
Need to supplement use of values inventory with exploration of other possible values
- Some common values instruments
Minnesota Importance Questionnaire
O*NET Work Importance Profiler
Values Scale
Integrative Career Assessment Programs - ANS-- Combine interests, abilities, and
values assessments
- Kuder career planning system
COPSystem
- Integrated Assessment and Career Information Systems
These systems include multiple assessments as well as an integration of occupational
information
DISCOVER Program
SIGI3
Combing Assessment Information - ANS-- Career Development Assessment and
Counseling Approach (C-DAC)
- Integrates results from multiple career assessments:
Adult Career Concerns Inventory
Career Development Inventory
Strong Interest Inventory
Values Scale
Salience Inventory
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