A review of the literature revealed that few studies had examined whether vocational development theories and interest inventories researched primarily with white samples are meaningful for Spanish-speaking individuals. This study found that the six Holland personality types as measured by the Harrington/O'Shea System for Career Decision-Making (CDM) were present in four different Hispanic subcultures: Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and South American. The types were ordered according to the Holland hexagonal configuration. The findings also confirmed the construct validity of the CDM, which is based on the Holland model. The implications and advantages of using a single model of vocational development with all clients are discussed.

A study of the relationships between the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, Form DD, reveals many potential problems for counselors. Frequent inconsistencies and contradictions are found; like-named scales appear to be measuring different things, while dissimilar scales often have strong positive relationships. The first results of a long-term follow-up study are described and further emphasize the differences between the inventories. The implications of these findings for counselors are discussed, and suggestions for further research are outlined.

Attempted to reconcile differences reported in previous studies between the SVIB and Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (OIS) by interpreting a factor analysis of like-named scales in terms of J. Holland's theory of vocational choice. When the scales in the OIS and SVIB factors were assigned Holland 3-letter codes, the similarities among the factors became evident. The Holland system facilitated the naming of the factors and provided possible explanations for low correlations between like-named scales. Results also lend support to Holland's categories of occupational activity.

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This study compared RIASEC college major codes derived from surveying students enrolled in 28 majors, the judgments of subject matter and counseling experts, and workers employed in jobs related to the majors. Of the four methodologies used to obtain college codes, the highest degree of agreement was the 96% between student Career Decision‐Making (CDM) codes having reasonably close matches or better with codes in the Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes. The article discusses that students must be aware that some common major names are not very communicative or descriptive of the predominant code types studying the subject.