Career Assessment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Qualitative Career Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Introduction to Career Assessment

      • Mark Watson, Mary Mcmahon

      Pages 3-11

   3. A Philosophical Consideration of Qualitative Career Assessment

      • Peter Mcilveen, Warren Midgley

      Pages 13-20

   4. Qualitative Career Assessment: Research Evidence

      • Graham B. Stead, Brittan L. Davis

      Pages 21-30

   5. Qualitative Career Assessment Processes

      • Pamelia E. Brott

      Pages 31-39

   6. Career Learning

      • Frans Meijers, Reinekke Lengelle

      Pages 41-48

   7. Incorporating Career Assessment into Career Counselling

      • Mary Mcmahon, Wendy Patton

      Pages 49-58

3. Qualitative Career Assessment: Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-60

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   2. The Pattern Identification Exercise

      • Norman Amundson, Barbara A. Smith

      Pages 61-67

   3. Qualitative Career Assessment Using a Genogram

      • Anuradha J. Bakshi, Vidhya Satish

      Pages 69-80

   4. Card Sorts

      • Debra S. Osborn, Julia F. Kronholz, J. Tyler Finklea

      Pages 81-88

   5. Lifelines

      • Elzette Fritz, Grethe Van Zyl

      Pages 89-96

   6. The Life Design Genogram

      • Annamaria Di Fabio

      Pages 97-103

   7. Storyboarding and the Uses of Narrative

      • Bill Law

      Pages 105-111

4. Qualitative Career Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. The Career Construction Interview

      • Paul J. Hartung

      Pages 115-121

   3. My Career Chapter and the Career Systems Interview

      • Peter Mcilveen

      Pages 123-128

   4. The Career Thinking Session

      • Barbara Bassot

      Pages 129-134

   5. The Early Recollections Technique

      • Jacobus G. (Kobus) Maree

      Pages 135-141

Career Assessment: Qualitative Approaches will assume a seminal place in the field of career development as the first book to focus solely on qualitative approaches to career assessment. This book represents a timely and important contribution to career development as it seeks to meet the needs of increasingly diverse client groups. Part 1, Foundations strongly positions qualitative career assessment in its historical, philosophical, theoretical and research contexts. The book is innovative by considering qualitative career assessment through the lens of learning. Part 2, Instruments, presents the first collation of chapters on a comprehensive range of qualitative career assessment instruments and processes written to a standard format to enable readers to compare, contrast and evaluate approaches. Part 3, Using quantitative career assessment qualitatively, mitigates against depicting an unnecessary divide in the field between quantitative and qualitative career assessment by considering their complementarities. Part 4, Diverse Contexts, considers qualitative approaches to career assessment in contexts other than able western, middle class settings. Part 5, Future Directions, reflects on the chapters and poses suggestions for the future. With high profile authors from nine different countries, the book represents a truly international contribution to the field of career development. In its focus on qualitative career assessment, this book holds a unique position as the only such text and will therefore assume an important place in the libraries of researchers, academics, and career practitioners.

• career assessment
• career counselling
• career development
• qualitative career assessment

• The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  Mary McMahon

• Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

  Mark Watson

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