Guide for Occupational Exploration: A New Approach in Career Planning

Abstract

The Guide f o r Occupational Exploration contains a new approach for presenting occupational information for use in career exploration. Its contents are in a nontechnical language and simple style intended for any reader with or without counseling help.The data are organized into 12 interest areas, 1 1 of which correspond directly to the interest factors in the new USES Interest Inventory currently being developed. Each area contains groups of jobs clustered according to common interests, capabilities, and adaptabilities of the workers. Jobs within each group are subgrouped for easy reading. Descriptive materials for the areas and groups focus on the characteristics of individuals as they relate to the characteristics required by the jobs.It is anticipated that this guide will provide an easy method of relating people potential to job requirements, which has not been possible with previous occupational exploration tools. In addition, it presents the student, the lay person, and others not conversant with technical language with a means of self-exploration and job opportunities appropriate for their potential.

Development of a New Occupational Aptitude Pattern Structure with Comprehensive Occupational Coverage

“…The Guide contains a trait-oriented occupational classification structure developed for use in counseling and occupational exploration (Droege & Padgett, 1979;Droege & Padgett, in press;Strohmenger & Padgett, 1979). The structure contains 66 work groups, each consisting of occupations judged by occupational analysts to have similar aptitude requirements for successful job performance.…”

U.S. Employment Service Aptitude and Interest Testing for Occupational Exploration

“…The successful development of this structure of broad Interest Areas and the Work Groups within areas is described in Droege and Padgett (1979) and Strohmenger and Padgett (1979).…”

“…specifically to provide a psychologically meaningful occupational structure covering all 12,000 occupations defined in the 4th edition of the DOT. The successful development of this structure of broad Interest Areas and the Work Groups within areas is described in Droege and Padgett (1979) and Strohmenger and Padgett (1979).…”