Career Theories
This theory emphasizes matching a person’s interests and personality with a compatible work environment.
What is Holland’s RIASEC theory?
This type of assessment helps identify occupations that match what a client enjoys doing.
What is an interest inventory?
Career development begins during this stage of life rather than only in adulthood.
What is childhood?
Counselors should consider these factors because they can affect access to career opportunities.
What are cultural and socioeconomic factors?
This counseling skill involves listening carefully and communicating the meaning of what a client says.
What is reflection?
This theorist described career development through stages such as growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement.
Answer: Who is Donald Super?
This assessment measures abilities or potential to learn certain skills.Â
What is an aptitude test?
Super believed career development is influenced by a person’s evolving view of themselves, known as this.
What is self-concept?
Career counselors should avoid assuming that a client’s career choices should conform to these traditional expectations.
What are gender roles/stereotypes?
This intervention helps clients learn directly about an occupation by speaking with someone who works in the field.Â
What is an informational interview?
This theory emphasizes learning experiences, environmental conditions, and task-approach skills in career decision-making.
What is Krumboltz’s Social Learning Theory of Career Decision Making?
Values assessments help clients identify what they consider important in this area of their lives.
What is work/career?
Adolescents commonly engage in this developmental task by exploring possible occupations and educational paths.
What is career exploration?
This concept refers to barriers that may limit opportunities because of race, gender, disability, socioeconomic status, or other identities.
What are systemic barriers?
Setting specific, measurable career objectives with a client is an example of this counseling process.
What is goal setting?
This approach encourages clients to remain open to unexpected events and use them as career opportunities.
What is Planned Happenstance?
Assessments should never be interpreted alone; counselors should combine them with this information from the client.
What is the client’s personal history/context?
Career development in adulthood may include changing careers, returning to school, or adapting to this major life event.
What is a career transition?
Advocacy may involve helping clients gain access to education, employment, transportation, childcare, or other types of these.
What are resources/supports?
This experiential intervention allows a person to observe someone performing a job in a real work environment.
What is job shadowing?
According to Super, the combination of roles a person occupies across life forms this concept.
What is the life-career rainbow?
Ethical career assessment requires counselors to consider reliability, validity, and this issue when selecting an instrument for a diverse client.
What is cultural appropriateness/fairness?
Older adults may continue career development through work, volunteering, mentoring, or this major transition.
What is retirement?
A culturally responsive counselor examines both the client’s individual experiences and these larger influences affecting career development.
What are social/systemic influences?
This intervention gives clients firsthand exposure to a work environment through temporary supervised employment experience.
What is an internship?