TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceived benefits of using an internet-based interactive career planning system
AU - Gati, Itamar
AU - Kleiman, Tali
AU - Saka, Noa
AU - Zakai, Alon
PY - 2003/4
Y1 - 2003/4
N2 - Making Better Career Decisions (MBCD) is an Internet-based interactive career planning system designed to help deliberating individuals. The present research examined the benefits of a dialogue with MBCD, by analyzing 712 users' perceptions of its contribution to their career decision-making process, and locating variables associated with these perceptions. A pre-dialogue and a post-dialogue questionnaire were used to collect the users' perceptions of its benefits and measure the change in the degree of decidedness. Perceived benefit was derived from participants' ratings of the degree of progress they had made in their career decision-making process, whether they had learned about additional factors to be considered and their career-related preferences, as well as their ratings of the quality of the list of "promising" career alternatives presented to them during their dialogue with MBCD. This composite perceived benefit was found to be positively associated with the users' decidedness at the completion of the dialogue with MBCD. Users' satisfaction with the length and variety of their personal "promising alternatives" list was associated with a higher perceived benefit.
AB - Making Better Career Decisions (MBCD) is an Internet-based interactive career planning system designed to help deliberating individuals. The present research examined the benefits of a dialogue with MBCD, by analyzing 712 users' perceptions of its contribution to their career decision-making process, and locating variables associated with these perceptions. A pre-dialogue and a post-dialogue questionnaire were used to collect the users' perceptions of its benefits and measure the change in the degree of decidedness. Perceived benefit was derived from participants' ratings of the degree of progress they had made in their career decision-making process, whether they had learned about additional factors to be considered and their career-related preferences, as well as their ratings of the quality of the list of "promising" career alternatives presented to them during their dialogue with MBCD. This composite perceived benefit was found to be positively associated with the users' decidedness at the completion of the dialogue with MBCD. Users' satisfaction with the length and variety of their personal "promising alternatives" list was associated with a higher perceived benefit.
KW - Career decidedness
KW - Career decision-making
KW - Career decision-making difficulties
KW - ICPS
KW - Internet
KW - Internet-based career planning systems
KW - MBCD
KW - Making Better Career Decisions
KW - PIC
KW - Prescreening
KW - Sequential elimination
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U2 - 10.1016/S0001-8791(02)00049-0
DO - 10.1016/S0001-8791(02)00049-0
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AN - SCOPUS:0038066649
SN - 0001-8791
VL - 62
SP - 272
EP - 286
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
IS - 2
ER -