Relationships Among Work Values and Job Knowledge

Occupational knowledge in college students: Examining relations to career certainty, career decision-making self-efficacy, and interest congruence

“…Various additional career-related variables have been examined in relation to objectively-measured broad occupational knowledge. Sampson and Loesch (1981) assessed occupational knowledge's relation to work values, but found no patterns among RIASEC domains of knowledge and domains of work values. Achebe (1982) found that urban middle and high school students in Nigeria had more occupational knowledge than their rural counterparts, possibly relating to the number or type of occupations students were exposed to in their communities.…”

“…The Job Knowledge Survey (JKS). Developed by Loesch (1977), the JKS was found to be used in two studies (Loesch & Sampson, 1978;Sampson & Loesch, 1981) and consists of 48 occupational titles sampled randomly from each of the RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional; Holland, 1997) interest domains which participants are asked to rate the occupational titles' levels of emphasis on people, data, and things. This measure is strong in that it asks individuals to separate occupational titles based on the general domains of typical job activities.…”