Career Navigator: Its Use With College Students Beginning the Job Search Process

Abstract

This study explored the effects of the Career Navigator program on college student self‐rated knowledge and skill in the job search process as compared to a professional development business administration course and a no‐treatment control group.

Evaluating Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems: A Critique of the Differential Feature-Cost Approach

“…An example is the recent article by Kapes, Borman, and Frazier (1989), which evaluates the SIGI and Discover systems. Another recent article of interest is by Garis and Hess (1989), who describe a system (&dquo;Career Navigator&dquo;) which focuses on the job search process.…”

Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development, 1989

“…The second most common intervention strategy, computer interventions, was the topic of several studies and articles in 1989 (Bloch & Kinnison, 1989;Garis & Hess, 1989;Gati & Tikotzki, 1989;Kapes, Borman, & Frazier, 1989;Stewart, 1989). An excellent new guide to computer software by Walz and Bleuer (1989) reviewed software on career selection and job readiness, resume writing, and job search , and contains a brief but thorough discussion of trends in software for career counseling by Bridges (1989).…”

“…Although no control group was utilized (a common weakness in computer intervention studies), respondents in this otherwise well designed study showed across-the-board improvements in decisional status. A second study by Garis and Hess (1989) used a comparison group but did not employ random assignment, and used measures with limited psychometric evidence. As expected, the findings showed increases on the outcome measures, but one is frustrated again in drawing implications from studies with such serious methodological limitations, and struck by how easily such flaws could have been remedied.…”