Interest inventories and career assessments continue to be used to support practitioners as they work to uncover client interests, abilities, skills, motivations, values, and other personal factors that help individuals self-define and construct their career. The skilled use of career inventories and assessments remains a minimum competency of career service providers' ability to successfully partner with their clients. A history of the evolution of assessment from 1914 through 1974 and considerations for the future of assessment are highlighted to provide historical perspective to inform practitioners as they serve the diverse needs of complex client populations.

International collaboration on research projects i s becoming important as countries experience similar problems that need attention. The process of such research collaboration is discussed with specific reference to initiating collaborative research, evaluating the potential of entering into a research partnership, preparing for travel, developing and completing a project, and maintaining international collaborative research relationships. Factors that enhance and diminish such relationships are also discussed.The world is fast becoming a global village and the problems surrounding work in one country are often issues in other countries. Unemployment, career indecision, career decision making, work adjustment, and career education, among others, need attention in all countries. To assume that all of a country's work-related problems can be solved independently is shortsighted and provincial. People need each other and can all learn from each other. Certain strategies for resolving career problems are undoubtedly more pertinent to some countries than others but international research cannot be ignored. Developing theoretical and conceptual insights that are indigenous to one's context are worthwhile activities. An indigenous psychological approach refers to Yhose elements of knowledge that have been generated in a country or in a culture, and that have developed therein, as opposed to those that are imported or brought from elsewhere" (Sinha, 1997, p. 132). Conducting indigenous psychological research with international colleagues can serve to invigorate, enrich, and sharpen one's research practices and may extend our knowledge of psychological phenomena in a broad array of contexts. Career research in diverse contexts has the potential to provide theories, constructs, and assessment techniques with a more substantive and meanGraham B. Stead is aprofessor in the Department of Psychology at the Port Elizabeth Campus of V i t a University, South Africa. Thomas F. Harrington is a professor in the

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.

This study examined high school students' selected work values in six countries. The data were analyzed for between-country correlation. Also, the data were analyzed with sex as a variable. The findings indicated selected work values were more similar than dissimilar across countries and cultures. Gender specific results suggested a higher degree of transnational agreement among girls than among their male peers.For the past 35 years behavioral scientists have studied how work values and occupational choice relate. As early as 1957, Rosenberg examined the role of work values in college students' occupational choice.Rosenberg's work stemmed from the sociological and anthropological theory and research of his era. In 1970, Super asserted that values are objectives sought to satisfy a need. Occupational choice, according to Super, is an attempt to maximize need satisfaction through value realization. Later, Dawis and Lofquist ( 1984) referred to values as "standards of importance for the individual" (p. 4). These standards influence choice of work environment and, ultimately, level of satisfaction. These early vocational psychology conceptions were plat-

International collaboration on research projects is becoming important as countries experience similar problems that need attention. The process of such research collaboration is discussed with specific reference to initiating collaborative research, evaluating the potential of entering into a research partnership, preparing for travel, developing and completing a project, and maintaining international collaborative research relationships. Factors that enhance and diminish such relationships are also discussed.