John Holland And John Trim's Occupational Classification System

I believe that this assessment is a valuable tool in the field of career counseling because it helps the counselors to have more information about the students and their overall wellbeing. By discussing each element counselors can identify the reasons for their struggles as they share their stories. It can help counselors to provide resources and information to improve their overall wellbeing especially with the career wellbeing. With this information, career counselors can refer them to different departments if more help is

This paper introduces the overview of personality assessment approaches in use currently in society. It proceeds to review the big five personality measures, its validity in prediction of personality types (Archer, 2011). The topic on MIPS questionnaires use in personality measurements and scoring methods used by the system is reviewed. Aspects on the social desirability trait and the distortion produced in responses to evaluation questionnaires, being a significant part of the problems in personality assessment is examined. Social desirability does not have an influence on the predictive validity of personality assessments. It is not related to performance in the job. Various strategies used for reduction of social desirability have been studied. The various tools used in assessments are recapitulated including some methodological aspects (Weiner, 2009). Cultural aspects in evaluation of personality discussed are touched upon. Two case studies are used to show the real life situation of personality assessment.

The AAMA stand for American Association of Medical Assistant. This is a program specifically for medical assistants. The AAMA vision is that there should be a CMA for every patient. The AAMA mission is to make sure that every MA is getting the proper education. So that the MA is confident in what they are doing as well, as knowing how to do the job properly. AAMA also wants the MA to get certified as well be protected under their scope of practice. The AAMA also gives the MA connections so that the MA continues to get education.

Often times, people are just aware of careers that are viewed as more popular or talked about such as therapist or doctors. I believe this causes us to limit ourselves to the kinds of professions we choose to pursue. This assessment provides insight into potential careers that an individual may really enjoy and want to seek in the future but may not be aware of their existence. Although I may not have changed my career path from taking this assessment, it was very useful to know that these kinds of careers are available. With this information, I plan and hope to educate people especially young children about other careers that are available that people do not often tell them about. I think it is important that people re cognizant of this information to divserse

The prediction I made in the beginning of this assignment was not so different from the results at the end. The types which I thought I resembled the most resulted in a code of SEA. However, the results from the self-directed search resulted in one difference; the search gave me SEI. Since I was coded with an SEI, the five occupations which drew me in the most were a financial institution president, political scientist, nurse head, school principal, and psychologist. Overall, my self-rating assessment matched the results of the vocational assessment almost perfectly.

A free online database known as the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) contains information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors available to students, job seekers and businesses across the United States. O*NET provides users occupation search capability either by a keyword or the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code used for uniquely identifying all private, public and military professions in the economy.

The Occupational Information Network database (O*NET), is a distinctive occupational data resource useful for characterizing occupations; for instance, worker attributes, attitudes, knowledge and skill, and job characteristics (Scarlata, Stone, Jones, & Chen. 2011). The database receives annual funding from the U.S. that amounts to over six million dollars, due to its financial resources or goal of providing a comprehensive, cross-sectional, and longitudinal database of U.S. occupations, unmatched by any other database as O*NET is the only source that expansively measures occupations longitudinally (over time) and cross-sectionally (across occupations). Due to stress-free accessibility, the O*NET is the primary data resource for job analysis.

Do occupations really matter? The main reason early settlers died was because of their occupations. On the first boat to Jamestown there were hundred-twenty men forty-seven were Gentlemen, (Document C). Gentlemen were people that are not used to working with there hands. They also had a lot of meaningless occupations for settling an uncharted territory. There are no hunters of farmers so they would have to learn how to do that on the fly. On the next boat, out of the hundred-twenty men there were 28 Gentlemen and 51 unknown occupations, (Document C). Onboard the boat there were six drummers and you do not really need drummers at all because they will not know how to survival tasks without being taught how to do it. Some people will

The purpose of this instrument is to assist a client’s interest as it relates to vocational abilities and career planning. Beulah scored high in areas Social 16, Enterprising 14, conventional 8, Investigative 6, Realistic 2. These type of scores are classified to be ordinal, as “the variables are rank-ordered from the greatest to the least or the best to the worst” (Drummond, Sheris, and Jones, 2016, p.49). Another instrument that was utilized by the Career counselor to assist Beulah was the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, where she scored an IQ of 164. These types of scores from these test are considered to be interval data, as “it encompasses qualities of both magnitude and equal intervals, however there is no absolute zero” (Drummond, Sheris, and Jones, 2016,

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is an occupational information system released by the U.S. Department of Labor which is an existing database that allows analysis of occupations to be completed (Hurt, & Homan, 2013; Peterson, & Jeanneret, 2007). The data collected on the O*NET includes ratings on job tasks, skills, knowledge and education needed, generalized work activities (GWA),work styles, and context areas (Donsbach, Tsacoumis, Sager , & Updegraff, 2003).

1.3 There are a variety of sources of information that is available to the public based on an industry, occupation, training and career pathway. The public can find information on the local councils website about the industry in which I work. It details the job role and services of various departments within the organisation. There are links within the website that inform the public about varius professions within the council, also it provides external links to other websties that provide information about training and career pathways withon the local authority and wider circle.

To address the aforementioned problem, we propose to establish a student guidance centre with the objective to become the hub of career counselling and personality development. The facilities currently available fail to cater to these needs of the students. We will provide thorough counselling to the student which includes aptitude and psychometric tests, detailed profiling, preliminary guidance and expert counselling for him along with his guardians. Herein, the student will be provided with various career options tailored to his needs. He will also be suggested some add-on courses which he can enrol in to in order to gain the competitive advantage over the other students.

Pollack, L. J., Simons, C., Romero, H., & Hausser, D. (2002). A common language for classifying and describing occupations: The development, structure, and application of the standard occupational classification. Human Resource Management, 41(3), 297. doi:10.1002/hrm.10042

In order to assure the viability and reliability of the results of the analysis its imperative to consider what data will be collected. Once the questioning has begun any deviation from the questions posed between sources would result in skewed results. Some common areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:

This article is in the stem field and shows that the career sector in which an individual is attempting to have a career may dictate the perceived skills and attributes needed for career success. This ultimately leads to another variable in determining the students perceive preparedness for career success.