Career Theories
This theorist is known for the RIASEC model and Holland Codes.
Who is John Holland?
This type of score tells you how many items a person answered in a particular way before any statistical conversion.
What is a raw score?
According to Super, this is the developmental stage typically occurring from ages 25-45 where people focus on career advancement.
What is the Establishment stage?
This term describes the process of adopting the traits or social patterns of another cultural group.
What is acculturation?
This approach to career counseling involves giving clients tests and then telling them what careers to pursue.
What is 'test 'em and tell 'em'?
This theory emphasizes self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and personal goals in career development.
What is Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)?
This assessment measures a person's readiness to make career decisions and is associated with Super's theory.
What is the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI)?
These are the three tasks Super identified for adolescent career development: crystallizing, specifying, and this.
What is implementing?
This occurs when counselors assume that one value system (usually their own) is superior to another.
What is ethnocentrism?
This is the most comprehensive Department of Labor website for occupational information.
What is CareerInfoNet?
This theorist developed the Life-Span, Life-Space theory and identified five career development stages.
Who is Donald Super?
If someone scores at the 75th percentile, this percentage of people in the norm group scored lower than them.
What is 75 percent?
This term describes when adults go back through earlier career development stages due to life changes.
What is recycling?
Traditional career theories have been criticized for primarily reflecting this cultural perspective.
What is European-American middle-class male perspective?
This website replaced the Dictionary of Occupational Titles as the primary source for occupational information.
What is O*NET?
This theory focuses on how people eliminate career options based on gender and prestige considerations.
What is Gottfredson's Theory of Circumscription and Compromise?
This popular self-administered assessment is based on Holland's RIASEC model and includes both interest and competency ratings.
What is the Self-Directed Search (SDS)?
According to Gottfredson, children first eliminate careers based on this factor before considering prestige.
What is gender appropriateness?
This concept recognizes that individuals have multiple, intersecting identities that influence their career development.
What is intersectionality?
This term describes linking related databases or information systems together.
What is crosswalking?
This model uses the acronym CASVE to describe the career decision-making process.
What is the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) approach?
This is the term for any formal or informal technique used to collect data about a client.
What is assessment?
This developmental approach emphasizes that career development occurs across multiple life roles and contexts simultaneously.
What is Super's Life-Space approach?
When career assessments measure the same constructs across different cultures, this is called this type of equivalence.
What is conceptual equivalence?
According to the text, this provides the most useful foundation for career exploration.
What is exposure to work?