Assessment Tools
This category of career assessment is used most frequently.
What is an 'interest inventory' ?
This person was credited with establishing Trait and Factor theory.
Who is Frank Parsons?
This is the main focus of constructivist and narrative career counseling?
What is to help clients construct unique meaning and identity through their stories.
This division of ACA leads the way in credentialing career counseling professionals.
What is NCDA - National Career Development Association ?
This is the length of time a typical job search takes.
What is 6 months?
This assessment instrument was used to identify occupational areas aligned with client interests.
What is the Self Directed Search?
These are the vocational personality types associated with the acronym RAISEC in Holland's Theory
What are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional ?
When a career counselor is helping encourage a client to explore new options, to maintain flexibility, to build optimism, and take action on new opportunities they are using Krumboltz concept of ...
What is 'planned happenstance' ?
This term refers to external market data (e.g., job growth, hiring trends).
What is 'occupational outlook' ?
This is something you should do before starting to work on a resume with a client.
What is list work history, brainstorm key experiences, strengths, skills and accomplishments or look at job descriptions that interest the client ?
This assessment instrument was used to explore family career patterns, expectations, and influences.
What is a Career Geonogram?
In Super's Theory of Career Development, A person’s readiness and ability to make age-appropriate career decisions is called __________.
What is Career Maturity?
In Social Cognitive Career Theory, one’s belief in their ability to succeed in a task or situation is _______.
What is self-efficacy?
What is the 'Occupational Outlook Handbook" ?
These are 2 different formats for resumes.
What are chronological and functional ?
This assessment instrument was used to help clients explore their core motivations and what they prioritize in a career.
What is a Values Assessment or Card Sort?
In the Theory of Work Adjustment, two concepts are used to describe 1 -how the worker feels about the job and 2 - how well the worker meets the job’s demands. What are the concepts?
What are “satisfaction” and “satisfactoriness”?
The five stages of the CASVE cycle include:
What are Communication, Analysis, Synthesis, Valuing, Execution?
Job descriptions, Labor market trends, Wages and benefit information, and educational/training requirements are all considered this...
What is 'occupational information' ?
These macroeconomic factors can influence occupational opportunities.
What are recession, trade policy, pandemic, political climate ?
A(n) ________ is the “learned power of doing something competently: a developed aptitude or ability” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.).
What is a 'skill' ?
In Holland's Theory, the goal is finding a fit between a person’s type and their work environment - when looking at the clients 3 letter RAISEC code, the closer the areas are on the hexagon indicates the more _____ they have with the suggested work environment.
What is congruence?
In Krumboltz’s theory, the difference between associative and instrumental learning experiences are explained as...
What are Associative =learning through observing and Instrumental = learning through consequences of one’s own actions?
These are 3 things a career counselor should consider when ETHICALLY using occupational information
What are current and evidence based information, free from bias, and contextualized to the client's situation ?
These are common barriers faced by marginalized populations in job searching
What are discrimination, lack of access to networks, and systemic bias ?