The Industrial / Career Assessment Flashcards
application of psychological principles to the workplace
Industrial / Organizational Psychology
2 major areas of I/O Psychology
- personnel psychology
- organizational psychology
study and practice of job analysis, job recruitment, employee selection, and the evaluation of employee performance
personnel psychology
considers leadership, job satisfaction, employee motivation, and a variety of factors surrounding the functioning of organizations
organizational psychology
the systematic process of evaluating individuals’ interests, skills, values, personality traits, and aptitudes to gain insights into their career-related preferences, strengths and areas for development
career assessment
One variable considered closely related to occupational fulfillment and success
personal interests
consensus model of vocational interests for many decades
Holland’s RIASEC Model
preferred by people who like outdoor, physical activity and work that involves dealing with practical problems rather than managing interpersonal relationships
realistic careers
involve intellectual pursuits, typically involving science
investigative careers
involve creativity and artistic expression
artistci careers
Involve support, care, and guidance
social careers
- preferred by people who are ambitious and persuasive
- Like interacting with people, particularly in competitive environments
enterprising careers
measures of interests:
- Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
- Self-Directed Search (SDS)
- Career Assessment Inventory (CAI)
- One of the first and commonly used measure of interest
- Number of items: 291 items which takes 30-45 minutes to complete
- Age Range for administration: 16 and older
- Can be given as individual assessment or group
- Uses a 5-point Likert Scale and test items consist of a variety of areas including occupations, school subjects, and activities
Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
- Self-administered, self-scored, and self interpreted test
- Age range for administration: 11-70 years old
- Completion Time: 25-35 minutes
- Number of items: 228 items
Self-Directed Search (SDS)
- designed for people not oriented toward careers requiring college or professional training or who plan to enter careers immediately after high school or to attend community college or trade school
- Age range for administration: 15 years old and above
- Completion Time: 25-35 minutes
- Number of items: 305 items and uses 5-point Likert Scale
Career Assessment Inventory (CAI)
measures of ability and aptitude:
- General Mentality Ability Tests
- Wonderlic Personnel Test
- Differential Aptitude Tests for Personnel and Career Assessment
- O*NET Ability Profiler
- Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test
predict a variety of job performance criteria such as supervisor ratings, production records, work sample tests, instructor ratings, and grades
General Mental Ability Test
- A brief (12-minute) test includes items that assess spatial skill, abstract thought, and mathematical skill
- may be useful in screening individuals for jobs that require both fluid and crystallized intellectual abilities
Wonderlic Personnel Test
- a commercial test published by Pearson
- measures verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, mechanical reasoning, space relations, and language usage
Differential Aptitude Tests for Personnel and Career Assessment
- a freely available aptitude test developed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- consists of nine job-relevant ability tests: verbal ability, arithmetic reasoning, computation, spatial ability, form perception, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, and manual dexterity
O*NET Ability Profiler
widely used paper-and-pencil measure of a testtaker’s ability to understand the relationship between physical forces and various tools
Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test
measures of personality:
- NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R)
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Widely used in both clinical applications and a wide range of research that involves personality assessment.
- Based on theFive Factor Model (FFM) of personality (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness)
NEO PI-R
used to classify assessees by psychological type and to shed light on “basic differences in the ways human beings take in information and make decisions”
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
other measures (may be used in career planning and pre-employment contexts)
- Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS)
- Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI)
- surveys the life skills needed to make a successful transition from school to work
- Organized into four broad domains: Personal Living Skills, Home Living Skills, Community Living Skills, and Employment Skills
- evaluates 794 life skills
- designed for use with assessees of any age
Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS)
- a self-administered and self-scored instrument designed to provide information on the test taker’s ability to adapt to other cultures.
- Number of items: 50 items written in a six-point Likert format.
- yields information about one’s readiness to adapt to new situations, tolerate ambiguity, maintain one’s personal identity in new surroundings, and interact with people from other cultures.
Cross-CUltural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI)
