Career Assessment PPt

1. ASSESSMENT OF CAREER AND VOCATIONAL SKILLS
Career Assessments
Career assessments are tools that are designed to help individuals understand how a
variety of personal attributes (i.e., data values, preferences, motivations, aptitudes and skills),
impact their potential success and satisfaction with different career options and work
environments. Career assessments have played a critical role in career development and the
economy in the last century (Whiston and Rahardja, 2005). Assessments of some or all of these
attributes are often used by individuals or organizations, such as university career service
centers, career counselors, outplacement companies, corporate human resources staff, executive
coaches, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and guidance counselors to help individuals make
more informed career decisions.
In part, the popularity for this tool is due to the National Defense Education Act of 1958,
which funded career guidance in schools.[1]
Focus was put onto tools that would help high school
students determine which subjects they may want to focus on to reach a chosen career path.
Since 1958, career assessment tool options have exploded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_assessment
Types of Career Assessments and Vocational Skills
Career assessments come in many forms and vary along several dimensions. The
assessments selected by individuals or administrators vary depending on their personal beliefs
regarding the most important criteria when considering career choices, as well as the unique
needs of the individual considering a career decision. Some common points of variance are:
 Methodology - some assessments are quantitative in nature and precisely measure key
attributes believed to influence an individuals potential success and satisfaction with a
career. Others are qualitative exercises designed to help individuals clarify their goals and
preferences, which can then be used to make more informed career decisions.
 Measured attributes - assessments vary with regard to the specific personality attributes
measured. Some assessments focus on an individual's interests, and perhaps aptitude, while
others focus on skills or values. More robust assessments use key development

2. indicators (KDIs) that define measurements for specific types of careers and match
individual career aspirations with the needs of companies.[2]
 Validity - many assessments, particularly those offered on the internet, lack evidence for
"validity," which is the degree to which interpretation of the results of the assessment or
decisions made from the results are useful. Typical evidence of validity is verified
empirically. Users should evaluate any tests psychometric properties when assessing whether
to use it for a particular purpose, and how much weight to give to the results. When the
validity of the assessment for its intended purpose cannot be evaluated, results should be
interpreted with appropriate caution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_assessment
Social and Vocational Skills
Social and Vocational Skills (SVS) is a subject which can be taken in high schools as
a Standard Grade in Scotland. Unlike other subjects in the Scottish educational system, those
who take it are picked specially to do it, normally due to failings in other subjects or social
issues. There are exceptions to this rule however, such as Elgin Academy in Moray, where it is
taken as an additional compulsory standard grade by all pupils, giving most students a possible
total of 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_Vocational_Skills
Benefits
Career assessments are designed to discover the skills, aptitude and talents of candidates.
A self-assessment can be a useful tool in assessing the areas in which a candidate has strengths
and limitations. The results can be useful in helping candidates to choose a career that is in tune
with their goals and talents. While the validation of each instrument may vary from test to test,
overall these types of assessments have been proven to introduce more career options, increase
satisfaction in one’s career plan and increase the understanding of oneself (Prince et al., 2003).
Data as to how often people change careers are unavailable while there's a considerable
mythology about it, no systematic studies have been undertaken.[4]
However, many people
change careers more than once. Some make changes because the career path they chose is no
longer viable (to wit, buggy whip makers are no longer in high demand). Or because as they

3. mature throughout their lifespan their interests evolve. The biggest benefit of career assessment,
therefore, is that it enables candidates to make the best career decisions to grow both personally
and professionally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_assessment
Career guidance in Vocational High School
Career counseling is an effort to help the individual to know and understand himself,
knowing the working world, and developing a future which is in accordance to the expected form
of life. Furthermore, by career guidance, individual capable of making decisions appropriately
and responsibly or decisions taken so as to realize themselves meaningfully (Nurihsan, 2006: 16-
17). Career guidance field provides direction, provision, and ability to students to have career
readiness, able to plan, making career decisions and achieving career maturity. Career guidance
emphasizes on the planning of a person's life by taking into account the circumstances of himself
and his environment in order to gain a broader view on the positive role influence which is
feasible in society (Hatari, 1983). Super (1957), as quoted by Sukardi, 1987: 24) stated that
career guidance is a process to help individual to develop acceptance of self-unity as well as its
role in the working world. On the other hand, mastering the competence of job skills and its
relevance to the needs in the field is done through learning by teachers in the normative,
productive, and adaptive subjects supported by industrial work practices through school
cooperation with the business world and industry.
Evaluation_Of_Career_Guidance_Program_In_Vocationa.pdf