Essentials of Career Interest Assessment. Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series

* Complete coverage of interpretation, test construction, applications, and reporting * Expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls * Conveniently formatted for rapid reference Confidently acquire the knowledge and skills you need to conduct, interpret, apply, and report career interest assessments Essentials of Career Interest Assessment provides step-by-step advice for interpreting and using today's most popular career interest assessments, including the Strong Interest Inventory(TM), the Campbell(TM) Interest and Skill Survey, the Self-Directed Search, and other innovative career interest assessment tools. Providing essential information required to understand and evaluate these valuable instruments, this book will help you acquire the confidence and skills Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you to gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. Advance Praise for essentials of career interest assessment "Presents easy-to-read, key practical information on the most popular career interest assessments. The chapters are clear and concise, presenting valuable information for professionals in applied settings.

• Complete coverage of interpretation, test construction, applications, and reporting
• Expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls
• Conveniently formatted for rapid reference

Confidently acquire the knowledge and skills you need to conduct, interpret, apply, and report career interest assessments

Essentials of Career Interest Assessment provides step-by-step advice for interpreting and using today’s most popular career interest assessments, including the Strong Interest Inventory™, the Campbell™ Interest and Skill Survey, the Self-Directed Search®, and other innovative career interest assessment tools. Providing essential information required to understand and evaluate these valuable instruments, this book will help you acquire the confidence and skills

Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you to gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.

Advance Praise for essentials of career interest assessment

"Presents easy-to-read, key practical information on the most popular career interest assessments. The chapters are clear and concise, presenting valuable information for professionals in applied settings.

This book is a quick reference source to guide the career professional through the essentials of using the most popular career interest tools. It summarizes important technical aspects of each inventory, and offers step-by-step guidance in the interpretation and use of the various inventories. The chapters are: (1) "Overview"; (2) "Strong Interest Inventory"; (3) "Campbell Interest and Skill Survey"; (4) "Self-Directed Search"; (5) "Illustrative Case Report"; and (6) "Other Types of Interest Assessment." An annotated bibliography of 35 resources is included. (Contains 6 tables, 23 figures, 66 "Rapid Reference" boxes, and 118 references.) (SLD) Essentials of career interest assessment provides step-by-step advice for interpreting and using today2 most popular career interest assessments, including the Strong interest inventory(TM), the Campbell(TM) interest and skill survey, the Self-directed search, and other innovative career interest assessment tools. Interest inventories are among the most popular tools selected by career professionals today (Savickas, 1998).