Qualitative career assessment: A review and reconsideration

McMahon, Mary; Watson, Mark; Lee, Myra C. Y.

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2018.03.009

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“…In the past two decades, the field, overall, has addressed some of the weaknesses identified in 2001. There is some evidence that vocational psychology has seen an increase in qualitative research over the past two decades, somewhat addressing Fouad’s (2001) concerns that vocational psychology relies too heavily on survey research (Lazazzara, Tims, & de Gennaro, 2019; T. W. Lee, Mitchell, & Sablynski, 1999; McMahon, Watson, & Lee, 2019). In fact, vocational psychology has become very good at inquiring whether a specific set of psychological processes work qualitatively.…”

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“…There have been enough qualitative studies in specific areas to warrant reviews. For example, Lazazzara, Tims, and de Gennaro (2019) wrote a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies related to job crafting, and McMahon, Watson, and Lee (2019) wrote a review of qualitative career assessment as a process. This is encouraging considering that 20 years ago, T. W. Lee, Mitchell, and Sablynski (1999) were arguing for more qualitative research in both organizational and vocational psychology.…”

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Turning Around to Look Ahead: Views of Vocational Psychology in 2001 and 2019

Fouad

Kozlowski

2019

Journal of Career Assessment

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Ten scholars in vocational psychology identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in a 2001 issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior. This article reviews the state of the field in 2001 and then identifies to what extent the strengths and concerns have changed in the past two decades. While the field continues to have a strong theoretical and empirical tradition, old concerns about insularity, methods used to examine research questions, gulfs between science and practice, and turf wars remain a serious threat to the field. We outline the nature of these concerns and propose recommendations from the literature to these concerns.

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Turning Around to Look Ahead: Views of Vocational Psychology in 2001 and 2019

Fouad

Kozlowski

2019

Journal of Career Assessment

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“…Historically, nomothetic assessment has been predominant in career counseling research and practice (McMahon, Watson, & Lee, 2018). In this type of assessment, which is characterized by the quest for universal rules of behavior (McAdams, 2009), standardized tools are used MARCH 2019 • VOLUME 67 to provide objective measures of career constructs, such as interests, aptitudes, values, and life themes (Savickas, 1993).…”

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Individualized Career Counseling Outcome Assessment: A Case Study Using the Personal Questionnaire

Cardoso

Sales

2019

The Career Development Quart

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Career counseling has evolved to include practices that attribute a central importance to context variables and meaning‐making processes. Accordingly, there is a need for client assessment tools that consider the subjectivity and cultural specificity of clients and the interface between their work and life concerns. The idiographic assessment of outcomes, which uses individualized measures that involve clients in the definition of person‐specific items, is a promising approach. This article explores the use of the Personal Questionnaire (PQ) as an individualized outcome measure that complements standardized outcome career measures. The authors identify the factors leading to the emergence of idiographic assessment in career counseling, review existing research relevant to the need for the PQ, and present a case study of career construction counseling that illustrates how the PQ helps counselors to obtain sensitive and contextualized assessments of career counseling outcomes, guides interventions, and facilitates meaning making.

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“…The integration of visual and artistic methodologies, such as those used in this work, favors the involvement of students in the process (Byrne et al, 2016) [28]. The use of qualitative career assessment encourages children to reflect and express who they are becoming (Hartung, 2017) [29] through the co-construction of meanings and critical consciousness (McMahon et al, 2019) [30]. In this way, children act as active agents who can construct their own narrative on their life themes, that derive from the subjective experience of their own careers.…”

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Career Exploration as Social and Emotional Learning: A Collaborative Ethnography with Spanish Children from Low-Income Contexts

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Children’s career exploration is a critical aspect of career development. Through it, children explore the interplay between their different life roles, including those related to work (in a broad sense), learning, and education. Through career exploration, children can (re)construct the emotions derived from the interactions between personal and contextual factors by giving meaning to life experiences. This process involves cognitive and affective activities. Evidence suggests that children from low-income contexts are more likely to drop out of school and show lower educational aspirations. Providing career exploration interventions introduces an intentional learning that allows children to develop a higher level of career awareness and increase their aspirations for the future. The sample analyzed consisted of students between 6 and 8 years old from a low-income school in Seville (Spain). The data collection methods used have been those of collaborative ethnography (e.g., unstructured interviews, student productions, and photographs). Co-analysis was the chosen method for systematizing the information used in this research. Our results have revealed a system of influences which plays an important role in the different contexts and emotions that the children derive from their interactions with different spaces and socialization agents. In short, through career exploration, children mobilize exploratory behaviors, providing emotional responses. Collaborative ethnography has been shown to be a valid process for research on career exploration as social and emotional learning.

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Qualitative career assessment: A review and reconsideration

Cited by 19 publications

References 50 publications

Turning Around to Look Ahead: Views of Vocational Psychology in 2001 and 2019

Turning Around to Look Ahead: Views of Vocational Psychology in 2001 and 2019

Individualized Career Counseling Outcome Assessment: A Case Study Using the Personal Questionnaire

Career Exploration as Social and Emotional Learning: A Collaborative Ethnography with Spanish Children from Low-Income Contexts

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