Chapter 9 - Career Assessment
A Culturally Appropriate Model of Career Assessment - ANS-Culturally encompassing
information gathering
Culturally appropriate selection of instruments
Culturally appropriate administration
Culturally appropriate interpretation of assessment data
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)
Career Assessment - ANS-Origins of assessment in career counseling can be traced
back to Frank Parsons
"Test and tell" approach not reflective of current status of career assessment
Purpose is to gather information to facilitate decision making by counselor/client
Career Decision Making - ANS-- Career Decision Scale
Provides measure of career indecision, but does not indicate source or type of
indecision
- My Vocational Situation
- Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale
, Measures confidence individuals have in their ability to make career decisions
- Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire
Constructed to measure theory-based taxonomy of decision-making difficulties
Career Maturity - ANS-Career maturity "extent to which the individual has mastered the
vocational tasks, including both knowledge and attitudinal components, appropriate to
his or her stage of career development" (Betz, 1988, p. 80)
Measures the client's level of readiness for mastering career development tasks
Career Development Inventory
Adult Career Concerns Inventory
Career Maturity Inventory
Career Process Measures - ANS-Career Decision Making
Career Maturity
Other career choice process measures
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
- Informal assessments/exercises
- Portfolio assessment
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)
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