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A psychological interview process for career assessment

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The authors present a comprehensive four-step process for conducting initial career assessment by interview. The process assesses skills, interests, values, non-work relationships, goals and activities, and psychological aspects such as self-esteem and work attitudes. The interview process is flexible, internally consistent and portable. Step One analyzes the client's work history and includes reasons why such a history may be inadequate. Step Two examines work-related preferences. Step Three investigates lifestyle context, and Step Four produces a summary of all the accumulated interview information, including options the client wishes to avoid. Detailed worksheets accompany the article.

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  1. Counseling Psychology Program, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA

    Elizabeth B. Yost

  2. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.

    M. Anne Corbishley

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This article has been adapted, with permission, from Chapter 3, Promoting Client Self Understanding, in Yost, E. B., and Corbishley, M. A.Career Counseling: A Psychological Approach. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.

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Yost, E.B., Corbishley, M.A. A psychological interview process for career assessment. J Bus Psychol 5, 513–523 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01014499

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