The Effects of Interventions on Career Progress

Abstract

Throughout the history of career counseling, assessment has served as a useful means of obtaining relevant information to assist individ-uals in making career choices. The use of assessment results has evolved from an analytical, diagnostic, counselor-dominated task to a developmental, client-centered task (Crites, 1977). Significant changes also have occurred in both the types of assessment devices employed and in the way such assessments are used (Kapes, Mastie, & Whit-field, 1994). Thus, assessment devices continue to be integrated into many career counseling theories and settings for use with populations across the lifespan. Career counseling has generally been shown to have positive effects, and the question of whether career counseling works is no longer asked (Oliver & Spokane, 1988). However, compar-ative effects of differing assessment devices as adjuncts to the career counseling process have had limited study and more rigorous evalua-tions of all forms of vocational interventions are still required (Herr &

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