1. Interest and Vocational Testing
PSY 614
Instructor: Emily E. Bullock, Ph.D.

2. Vocational Testing can include an assessment of…
Interest
Skills (Aptitude, Ability, Self Ratings)
Values
Decision-Making Styles
Career Thinking
Career Maturity
Personality
Card Sorts
Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems
Vocational Rehabilitation/Disability Evaluations
Resume/Cover letter analysis
Group Activities
Checklists of Job Seeking Activities

3. Vocational Assessment from a CIP Perspective
EXECUTIVE PROCESSING DOMAIN
KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS
DECISION-MAKING SKILLS DOMAINS
SELF KNOWLEDGE
OPTIONS KNOWLEDGE
CASVE
META-COGN.

4. Vocational Assessment: Self-Knowledge Domain
Values
Interests
Skills
Work with your client to differentiate Interests, Values, and Skills

5. Self Knowledge Domain: Interest
Most commonly considered aspect of Vocational Assessment
Interest: “a response of liking” (Strong, 1943, p.6); “a learned affective response to an object or activity” (Murphy & Davidshofer, p. 38)
Can be used in practice to predict choices
Constraints on using interest alone to make a choice
Examples of Interest Measures
Strong Interest Inventory
Self-Directed Search
Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
COPS
Personal Global Inventory
O*NET Interest Profiler:

6. Interest Assessment: Holland Hexagon

7. Self-Knowledge Domain: Values Assessment-CACG and Card Sort
SIGIPlus Values
High Income
Prestige
Independence
Helping Others
Security
Variety
Leadership
Field of Interest
Leisure
Early Entry
Examples of other Values Measures available
Minnesota Importance Questionnaire
Survey of Interpersonal Values
Other CACGs
Various Card Sorts

8. Self Knowledge Domain: Skills Assessment
Eureka Skills Inventory Worksheet
ACT Inventory of Work-Relevant Abilities (IWRA)
But don’t forget…
Intelligence Tests
School Grades
Self Report
Other Aptitude Surveys

9. Vocational Assessment: Decision-Making Domain
Career Decision Scale:
Career Decision-Making Self Efficacy Scale
Computer Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACGs)
The CASVE Cycle

10. Vocational Assessment: Metacognitions Domain
Career Thoughts Inventory-Constructed to assess “dysfunctional thinking in career problem solving and decision making”
Considered to be a career-decision making readiness screener
Based in and created by the CIP theorists
Linked to an intervention in the form of the CTI Workbook