Career Assessment Paper

RUNNING HEAD: Analysis of Career Assessment Instrument

Analysis of a Career Assessment Instrument
August 20, 2014

Abstract

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Career assessment is important for every individual so as to understand their expectations. There are different tools which are used in assessing individuals’ career expectations. These tools can be used to help individuals to come up with conclusions in what they want to do with their lives.
However, this should be done with a lot of care to achieve good results. Career assessment instruments are used to measure psychological-personal characteristics which include amplitude, interests, skills and personality type. In dealing with these tools, one has to understand their
limitations
In this paper, the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey instrument will be discussed. Campbell Interest and Skill Survey

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The Campbell Interest and skills survey is a 320- item instrument. It is used to assess vocational interests and self-estimates of skills paralleling interests measured by the inventory
(Brown & Lent, 2012). By using this instrument, the individuals self-reported efforts are compared with various occupations. It uses a seven orientation scale to range the students. These orientation skills are: (a) influencing, (b) organizing, (c) helping, (d) creating, (e) analyzing, (f) producing and (g) adventuring (St. Edward’s University, 2014). Two scores are calculated for each scale: interest which finds how much one likes the specified activities and skills which measures how confident one feels about performing these activities. Then the instrument reports four patterns of combinations of interest and skill scores. These patterns are:
1. Pursue: in this report, both the interest and skills scores are high.
2. Develop: this report shows high interest score but low skills score. It recommends further education, training or experience for better performance and
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