The Career State Inventory (CSI) as a Measure of Readiness for Career Decision Making: A Manual for Assessment, Administration, and Intervention 7.0* (Technical Report No. 57)

Leierer, Stephen J.; Peterson, Gary W.; Reardon, Robert C.; Osborn, Debra S.

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“…The Career State Inventory (CSI; Leierer et al, 2017) is a five‐question survey that measures an individual's present state of readiness for career decision‐making and problem‐solving. These questions load on three different career decision‐making dimensions: certainty, clarity, and satisfaction (Leierer et al, 2017). The CSI takes approximately 5 minutes to complete and score, with total scores ranging from 2 to 12.…”

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“…Moderate scores (e.g., 6–8) represent moderate levels of uncertainty, clarity, and satisfaction, whereas high scores (e.g., 11–12) suggest someone who is frozen, confused, dissatisfied, and low in career‐choice clarity and confidence. Reliability has been reported as acceptable (α = .74; Leierer et al, 2017). Convergent validity was demonstrated through correlations between the CSI total score and the Career Thoughts Inventory (Sampson, Peterson, Lenz, Reardon, & Saunders, 1996) total score ( r = .63, p < .001), Decision‐Making Confusion subscale ( r = .63, p < .001), Commitment Anxiety subscale ( r = .60, p < .001), and External Conflict subscale ( r = .42, p < .001).…”

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“…Career decision state. The Career State Inventory (CSI; Leierer et al, 2017) is a five-question survey that measures an individual's present state of readiness for career decision-making and problem-solving. These questions load on three different career decision-making dimensions:…”

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“…MARCH 2020 • VOLUME 68 certainty, clarity, and satisfaction (Leierer et al, 2017). The CSI takes approximately 5 minutes to complete and score, with total scores ranging from 2 to 12.…”

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“…Related to CIP theory is the construct of career decision state, defined as “a person's state of being or consciousness during career problem solving and decision making” (Leierer, Peterson, Reardon, & Osborn, 2017, p. 3). Career decision state comprises certainty, clarity, and satisfaction; relates especially to the communication stage of the CASVE cycle (Leierer et al, 2017); and correlates negatively with dysfunctional career thinking (Leierer et al, 2016) and neuroticism (Bullock‐Yowell et al, 2011). Because one of the goals of CIP theory is to assist individuals in making a career decision, knowledge of changes in a person's career decision state after a career intervention is desirable.…”

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Comparing Career Development Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students in Cognitive Information Processing Theory–Based Versus Human Relations Courses

Osborn

Ryan

Brown

2020

The Career Development Quart

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The effectiveness of undergraduate career courses has been demonstrated for multiple variables, including career certainty, maturity, decision‐making skills, and reduction of dysfunctional career thoughts. Although such studies used the career course as an intervention, most failed to include a comparison course, nor were grounded in career theory. This study used a comparison group of 152 undergraduates enrolled in career development courses and 50 students enrolled in undergraduate human relations courses. Pre‐ and posttest comparisons indicated that the career course yielded significant improvements in career decision state, cognitive information processing (CIP) skills, career decision‐making stage, knowledge of next steps, and anxiety about current career concern, but the human relations course did not. The CIP‐based career course is supported as a valid career intervention, and individuals may benefit from targeted interventions depending on their CASVE cycle position. Future research might compare different career theory–based or atheoretical career courses on career development outcomes.

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“…MARCH 2020 • VOLUME 68 certainty, clarity, and satisfaction (Leierer et al, 2017). The CSI takes approximately 5 minutes to complete and score, with total scores ranging from 2 to 12.…”

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Comparing Career Development Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students in Cognitive Information Processing Theory–Based Versus Human Relations Courses

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Ryan

Brown

2020

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Impact of Worry on Career Thoughts, Career Decision State, and Cognitive Information Processing Skills

Hayden

Osborn

2020

Journal of Employment Couns

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Sixty‐nine Amazon Mechanical Turk workers completed the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (Berle et al., 2011), the Career Thoughts Inventory (Sampson et al., 1996a), and the Career State Inventory (Leierer et al., 2017). Worry was significantly correlated with negative career thinking and its dimensions of decision‐making confusion and commitment anxiety, with readiness and its dimensions of clarity and certainty, and with the self‐assessed cognitive information processing skills of self‐knowledge, options knowledge, decision‐making, and executive processing. Worry was also found to predict the degree of readiness for career decision‐making, negative career thinking, and cognitive information processing requisite skills.

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The Sustainability of Reskilling Projects Based on Employees’ Readiness for a Career Shift: Pursuing Sustainable Careers by Transitioning into IT Professions

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Kovačević,

Kužet

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Today’s organizations are highly responsive to external changes, which they also demand from their employees. All employees need competencies to respond to Industry 4.0, the green business economy, and post-COVID-19 work circumstances and to manage sustainable careers. One way of doing so is to take active part in reskilling projects and be ready for a career shift, which we believe can be foreseen in people’s devotion to sustainable careers and can ensure the sustainability of the whole reskilling project. With the presumption that the concept of sustainable careers can be captured in terms of the concept of readiness for a career shift, this study aims to explore the potential of the scale of readiness for career shifts to predict participants’ success in reskilling projects (in the context of IT professions). The research was conducted on 336 candidates who applied for Java and PHP programming positions and had no previous knowledge or experience in the field. The results show that the scale of readiness for career shifts has acceptable metric characteristics, and canonical discriminant analysis confirmed that the overall score can be used to predict outcomes in the reskilling project, while predictions based on single indicators were rather ambiguous. Therefore, the scale can be used as a tool in the process of selecting reskilling candidates (at least in professional transitions in the domain of IT), but further research on the topic might shed more light on the concept.

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The Career State Inventory (CSI) as a Measure of Readiness for Career Decision Making: A Manual for Assessment, Administration, and Intervention 7.0* (Technical Report No. 57)

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Comparing Career Development Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students in Cognitive Information Processing Theory–Based Versus Human Relations Courses

Comparing Career Development Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students in Cognitive Information Processing Theory–Based Versus Human Relations Courses

Impact of Worry on Career Thoughts, Career Decision State, and Cognitive Information Processing Skills

The Sustainability of Reskilling Projects Based on Employees’ Readiness for a Career Shift: Pursuing Sustainable Careers by Transitioning into IT Professions

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