Career Planning

  • early assessment of career-related interest was attained by asking persons to estimate how they felt about an occupation or activity

  • Strong developed means of a strictly empirical procedure, making few psychological assumptions and developing his scoring formulas on the basis of correlations of responses with criteria.

  • Found expressed and inventoried interests about equally predictive of occupational entry

  • Definition of Interests relating to personality and motivation

  • Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory is based on psychological rationale that it is possible to categorize people into six types

  • The self-directed search yields a classification code wihich is used the the occupations finder to locate suitable occupations