Career Development Flashcards
Career Interest
A preference for a kind of life activity. This preference is thought to be a key aspect of career decision making and the choices clients make.
Behavioral Career Counseling
A model that focuses exclusively on the process of learning as it influences career decision making. E.g. “what are the principles of learning that regulate the making of realistic career choices?”
PostModern Approaches to Career Development
This includes narrative, contextual, and constructivist thoughts. They emphasize the importance of understanding each person’s own subjective experience of his or her career development; underscore personal agency in career construction process and embrace a multicultural perspective.
Subjective Utility Model
A mathematical model of career decision making in which utility and probability values are assigned to outcomes associated with particular careers.
Vocational Developmental Tasks
According to Donald Super, the five tasks (crystallization, Specification, Implementation, Stabilization, and Consolidation) that need to be resolved for successful vocational development.
Postmodernism
Philosophy emphasizing the believe that there is no one absolute truth and that, instead, each of us constructs our own reality and truth.
SIGI3 (System of Interactive Guidance and Information
An interactive program providing information to suers about career planning and interest based on their responses to questions. Includes the following parts: Values, Locate, Compare, Prediction, Planning, Strategy, Self-Assessment, Search Information, Skills, Preparation, and Coping. Is primarily used by high school and college students.
Computer Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACGS)
Integrated career planning systems that incorporate both assessment tools and databases to guide users through a systematic career planning process that includes multiple steps. E.g. DISCOVER and SIGI3
Career Occupational Preference System (COPS)
An assessment instrument that indicates the different occupational fields and levels (identified by Ann Roe) for which a person is best suited.
Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI)
A test designed by Holland that intends to estimate vocational choice from the responses of examinees to a list of occupational titles. It yields scores on Hollands six personality types and provides data on a variety of personality characteristics (self-control, masculinity, status, infrequency, and acquiescence).
Guidance Information Systems (GIS)
A computer program that contains information about occupations, military careers, higher education, and financial assistance.
Occupational Information Network (O*Net)
An occupational database developed and maintained by the US department of labor. For each occupation, provides information about tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, work activities, work context, job zone, education, interest, work styles, work values, related occupations, wages, and employment trends, and sources of additional information. Also provides a skills inventory and allows users to download three other assessment instruments.
Vocational Interest Inventory (VII)
An assessment tool designed for clients whose interest have not crystallized; developed from Roe’s occupational fields and levels classification.
RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional)
John Holland’s mnemonic of personality and environment types.
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
A publication of the US department of Labor that is available both in print and on a website. It is updated every two years. The current version has over 300 occupational titles and covers about 85% of the jobs in the US economy.
