Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction. Part I: Career Decision Making. Components of Career Decision Making. Decisions About Work. Decisions About Occupations and Jobs. Decisions About Career Education and Training. Part II: The Needs for Guidance. General Recognition of Students' Needs for Guidance. Specification of Individuals' Needs for Career Guidance. Interaction Between Societal and Individual Needs. Specification of Colleges' Needs. Specification of Corporate Needs. Specification of Developers' Needs. Recapitulation of Needs and Purposes. Part III: Rationales and Models of Career Guidance. The Model for a Guidance System. Major Approaches to Guidance. Part IV: Focus on Functions of a Guidance System. The Domains of Self-Understanding. The Dimensions of Values. The Structure of Interests. Prediction in SIGI. Skills in SIGI PLUS. Occupational Information. A Strategy for Deciding. Decisions into Actions. Style and Design. Part V: The Evaluation of a Guidance System. Big Questions and Little Questions. Aspects of Validity. Efficacy: The Criterion Problem. The Evaluation of SIGI. Comparisons of Males and Females in CDM. The Evaluation of SIGI PLUS. Independent Evaluations. Part VI: Conclusion. Prospects. A Final Note.

About the Author

Martin R. Katz

Reviews

"...serves as an informative manual on the desired mastery of CDM in user-SIGI and SIGI PLUS interactions."
—Contemporary Psychology"Any serious corporate or educational user of SIGI-PLUS will find it to be an indispensible resource. The book is well prepared and scholarly, but still readable....For this book and for his lifetime of work in computerized career guidance systems, Katz is to be commended."
—Personnel Psychology