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OMG! Not Another Career Assessment
A Developer’s Journey, by Mark S. Majors, Ph.D.
Mark Majors, the counseling psychologist who developed the Core Factors Career Path assessment, explains why career fit depends on what a client wants to avoid as well as what a client prefers, and how to use both sides of the results in career counseling.
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What you take away
Three Problems This Special Report Helps You Solve
A Way to Identify What a Client Wants to Avoid
Majors observes that people leave jobs because a job involves too much of what they dislike. Career Path reports preference and avoidance for each of the 11 Occupational Activity Groupings (OAGs). A client can then check an occupation against the activities they want to avoid before accepting a role.
Guidance for Presenting Results Before a Client Reads Them
Clients can read a career report as an instruction to pursue a specific occupation. Majors explains why a career counselor guides a client to narrow the options rather than prescribing a career. He recommends discussing what the report shows and what the graphs represent before the client reads the results.
A Clear Reading When a Client Likes and Dislikes Parts of the Same Area
The Career Path report can show equal percentages of preference and avoidance for one Occupational Activity Grouping. Majors explains that this result means the client likes some tasks and activities in that area and dislikes others. You can use that detail to help a client tailor a job search to avoid the activities they dislike in that area.
Inside the special report
Twenty-Two Pages from the Developer of Career Path
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Introduction
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The History Behind the Core Factors® Career Path Assessment
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The Role of a Career Development Counselor
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OMG! Not Another Career Assessment
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The Importance of Self Understanding
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How Should I Use the Core Factors® Career Path Assessment With Clients?
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Why Do I Need Another Career Assessment?
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Appendix: Occupational Activity Groupings
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Appendix: Global Interest Areas
The design
Built from Three Decades of Career Counseling
Career Path grew out of Majors’s work on the Strong Interest Inventory at Consulting Psychologists Press from 1992 to 2001 and his career counseling with high school and college students. He gave test-takers an established interest inventory along with questions of his own, and he began writing items for his own assessment from the data he collected.
Why avoidance is scored
Majors notes that on interest inventories, a low score is often read as disinterest. He built Career Path to give a direct result for what a person wants to avoid, so the client and the counselor can see dislikes alongside interests.
About Mark S. Majors, Ph.D.
Mark S. Majors, Ph.D., is a counseling psychologist who worked with Consulting Psychologists Press from 1992 to 2001 as a contractor and as an in-house research scientist. He did the data analysis for the MBTI® Form M revision and the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory, developed the IRT scoring for the MBTI Form Q, co-authored the MBTI Form Q Manual, and led the psychometric and scoring development of the Strong Interest Explorer. He is the principal developer of the Core Factors Type Discovery, Type Elements, Type Dynamics, Career Path, Career Signals, and Social Dynamics assessments. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and Multicultural Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This special report draws on his work on the Strong Interest Inventory and on the career counseling he began in 1992.
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