Abstract
Access to online career information increases the complexity of career decisions (choosing a major or job). When the number of alternatives is large, the first step is to compile a list of promising career alternatives for further exploration, often by using interest inventories (e.g., the Self-Directed Search). But what makes such a list useful? The judgments of 20 career counselors and 103 graduate students supported the hypothesis that higher list quality is associated with a greater similarity between the occupations on the list, fewer occupational fields represented by the occupations on the list, and a list length approximating seven occupations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 333-352 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2024 |
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Keywords
- Career counselors
- Holland
- List of recommended occupations