Career Counseling
Known as a pioneer of vocational guidance, he wrote Choosing a Vocation.
Who is Frank Parsons
Life-Span, Life-Space theory belongs to this career-development heavyweight.
Who is Donald Super
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional are better known by these six letters.
What is RIASEC
If an assessment actually measures what it claims to measure, it has this.
What is validity
Research generally describes career counseling as falling within this range of effectiveness.
What is moderately to highly effective
Parsons believed good career decisions begin with understanding your abilities, interests, resources, and limitations.
What is self-knowledge
Six personality types, six work environments, one famous hexagon.
Who is John Holland
Research, analysis, problem-solving, and figuring out how things work fit this Holland type.
What is Investigative
If an assessment produces sufficiently consistent results, it demonstrates this quality.
What is reliability
Career interventions tend to work better when they include this human element instead of relying on tools alone.
What is a counseling component
Parsons argued that people should do this rather than simply “hunt for a job.”
What is, choose a vocation
Self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and personal goals form the backbone of this theory.
What is Social Cognitive Career Theory
When your personality and work environment fit well together, Holland calls it this.
What is congruence
Even a great assessment is a bad choice if the client cannot comfortably understand this aspect of it.
What is the reading level
Effective career interventions include individualized feedback, occupational information, written exercises, modeling, and building this around clients.
What is social support
CACREP identifies career development as one of these essential areas of counselor preparation.
What is a core area of counseling competence
Planned happenstance reminds us that sometimes a career “plan” involves being ready when life throws a curveball.
Who is John Krumboltz
Congruence has company: these three constructs also help explain a Holland vocational profile.
What are consistency, differentiation, and vocational identity
Selecting tests, administering and scoring, reporting results, and doing this make up the four areas of fair testing practice.
What is informing test takers
Career concerns often overlap with these issues, which is why counselors cannot always neatly separate “career” from the rest of a client’s life.
What are personal/noncareer counseling concerns
Brown and Brooks used this term for objectively understanding your strengths and weaknesses and relating them to your environment.
What is cognitive clarity
The CASVE cycle and a pyramid of information processing belong to this career approach.
What is Cognitive Information Processing
Holland’s model belongs to this family of theories emphasizing the fit between individuals and their environments.
What is a person–environment theory
A counselor evaluating an assessment should consider these two types of fairness in addition to reliability and validity.
What are gender fairness and cultural fairness
The authors argue that culturally inclusive career interventions should be viewed this way—not as an optional specialty.
What is standard practice