Question

Identify two assessment tools used for career counseling purposes. Which would you use if you were a career counselor, and why?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Answer 1

• One of the most widely used career assessment tools is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, developed by the highly regarded psychoanalyst, Carl Jung.The MBTI will not recommend careers. However, the information it provides can help you choose careers for which your personality traits are most suitable.
• For example, if the MBTI shows that you’re extremely introverted, this information might help you choose a career that doesn't involve a lot of interaction with other people.
• Choosing to work in a field that you’re actually interested can increase your chances of a successful career. This is why the Strong Interest Inventory, or SII, career assessment tool is so popular.
• The tool uses six occupational themes as its benchmark and compares your interests to the interests of others who are happy with their career choices. In other words, the list of occupations that the SII generates attempts to only include jobs that will appeal to your interests. It doesn’t take into account your skill set or abilities.
• The Career Exploration Inventory, second edition (CEI) is a self-scoring and self-interpreting interest instrument that assesses three major interest areas – work, leisure, and learning in one device.
• A distinct advantage of the CEI is its easy-to-understand, self-scorable format enabling ease of administration, scoring and interpretation, making it particularly useful in a variety of individual and group counselling situations.
• The instrument is a combined question-answer format, is self-administered and takes approximately 20-30 minutes. It includes world of work, college and university occupations as well as a chart of related occupations and typical leisure activities.
• For me personally as a career counselor,I find MBTI the most useful,since it helps to provide a detailed description of the person's personality traits and based upon that it becomes clear which careers could one go into.
• The individual gets to know about their strengths and weaknesses in the personality,and they can work on it and choose careers which could strengthen them further and help them overcome their weakenesses and choose right career paths.