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Non-standardized Career Assessments

Explore non-standardized career assessments like Card Sorts and Five Lives to uncover your career preferences and values. Use genograms and narrative questions to delve deeper into your occupational choices.

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Non-standardized Career Assessments

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  1. Non-standardized Career Assessments

  2. Purpose • To “get at” underlying beliefs, unspoken goals and fears, modes of operating • Individualized, no psychometric properties • Card sorts, Decision Space Worksheet,Others

  3. What are Card Sorts? • “Cards” • occupations, values, interests.... • Projective technique • Alternative to standardized and/or computerized assessments

  4. Samples

  5. Virtual Card Sort http:// careerresource.coedu.usf.edu/linkcareerlab/card%20sort.dcr)

  6. Instructions • Sort into 1 of 3 piles

  7. Alternative Instructions • “Sort the cards in a way that makes sense to you.”

  8. Traditional • General reactions • Rank order would choose • Look for themes • RIASEC, gender, family, tasks, educational level, avoidance • Determine next steps (including moving might choose cards)

  9. Cognitive Map

  10. Values Card Sort

  11. Vistas

  12. Sample Skill Wheel

  13. Decision Space Worksheet • How task approached • Look at size

  14. Other Non-Standardized Approaches • Five Lives • Autobiography • Genogram • Diverse Decision Makers

  15. Five Lives Activity • If you had five lives to live, what career would you have in each of those lives?

  16. Analyze-think pair and share • What is it about each one? • Look at themes • Compare to family 5 lives • Can you do any of these things now?

  17. Ideal Day • Describe the perfect day of work. • Start in the morning and go through the evening. • Give as much detail as possible. • Notice changes in non-verbals, vocal tone. • Ask for reflection on the experience. • What stood out to them? • Surprises? • Next steps?

  18. Female Female Female Female Female Female Female CREATE YOUR CAREER GENOGRAM Divorce Male Male Children/Twins-Oldest at Left Marriage/Common Law Male Male Separation Male Male

  19. Career Genogram, continued Adoption Index Person • Circle members of current household • Zig-zags in the lines can resemble conflicted relationships • 4 straight lines = strongly attached; 3 = moderately; 2 = slightly; 1 = very slightly Death (give date)

  20. Career Genograms • Special attention should be given to identification of • occupations represented in a 3-4 generation family tree • status and value rankings typically assigned occupations by various family members • career choice patterns or ways in which family members make career decisions • economic expectations or pressures • family work values

  21. Suggested Questions • What are dominant values in the family of origins? • Vocationally, are certain “missions” valued? • Are there any “ghosts” or “legends” which serve either as anchor points or “rightful roles” for the family? • What myths or misconceptions seem to transcend generations? • Are there any psychological pressures or expectations emanating from “unfinished business” of the family?

  22. Questions, continued • How does the individual’s description of economic values and preferences fit in with the family’s history? • How has the family addressed the 3 boxes of life (learning, working, playing)? Any imbalances? • What family interaction rules and relationship boundaries have been passed through generations? • Are there any voids in client’s memory of family? Any significance to these voids?

  23. Questions, continued • Does client have a sense of “owing” family traditions? What are the accrued debts and credits? • How have the primary life tasks of love, work and friendship been addressed by the family? • What vocational patterns emerge, in terms of choices, as well as the choice and development process?

  24. Diverse Decision Makers Adapted from Donald & Carlisle, 1983

  25. Narrative Questions • If you were to see a career counselor today, what career concern would you want to discuss? • Identify 3 people you consider role models, whom you admire, and tell what it is you admire about each. “Follow up question, How are you similar/different from each of these people? • What is your favorite story? Tell me about it. Describe the main characters.” Which character is most like you and why? What’s the moral of the story? • What are your favorite magazines? What are each of them about? What do you like about each • What are your favorite t.v. shows? What are they about? What do you like about each of them? Who are the main characters and tell me about their personalities. Which character are you most like? • Describe your favorite hobbies, or what you like to do in your free time. What do you like about each of them? • What is your favorite saying? What is it that you like about that statement? • What were your favorite subjects in school (any grade level is fine) – and what was it about each that you liked? • What are three early memories that you have? After they have described each, create a headline or title for each. 26

  26. To learn more • Counselor’s Guide to Career Assessment • Whitfield, Feller & Wood (www.ncda.org) • Using Assessment Results for Career Development • Osborn & Zunker (www.cengage.com)

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