Career Guidance

Compensatory effort Willingness to expend extra effort to avoid failure. Competitiveness Drive to win and be better and faster than others. Confidence in Success Belief in capacity to achieve even difficult goals stemming from a belief in own knowledge, skills and abilities. Dominance Tendency.....read more

Career Attitudes and Strategies Inventory™ (CASI™) John L. Holland, PhD and Gary D. Gottfredson, PhD   Counselors describe the CASI as a career checkup that surveys beliefs, events, and forces affecting an individual's career as well as a way to identify influences or problems requiring further discussion and exploration. In individual or.....read more

Career Portfolio: Curriculum based   Dr. L. Beekman Activities in the Career Portfolio Activity Books for Grade 8-9 and 10-12 have been designed according to the learning outcomes for the domain of career choice and world of work in the National Curriculum for the learning area “Life Orientation” in South African schools.  The Grade 8-9.....read more

Career Portfolio (General) Dr. L. Beekman The rationale for the Career Portfolio Activity Workbook is to provide activities for qualitative assessment and to facilitate self and career exploration in the counselling practice of career psychology professionals who follow a post-modern counselling approach and for Life Orientation teachers who are.....read more

Career psychology in the South African context 3/e Stead GB, Watson MB To date, academics, practitioners and students in South Africa interested in career psychology have had to rely largely on textbooks from the US and Europe. However, politics, economics and prevailing social conditions have had a major influence on the nature, form and.....read more

Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes, 3rd Edition G.D. Gottfredson, Ph.D. & J.L. Holland, Ph.D. This volume is a “translation” of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and its Supplements into the Holland classification system. The Holland classification uses six main categories--Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,.....read more

Differential Aptitude Tests – Forms R, S, K and L (DAT) K. Owen & H.N. Vosloo The Differential Aptitude Tests are a series of differential aptitude tests constructed to assess some facets of intellectual functioning. Included among these are the following: abstract reasoning ability, language ability, processing speed, mechanical insight etc......read more

Differential Aptitude Tests Form L (DAT-L Namibia + DAT K Namibia ) – Norms for Namibia (2013) & (2007)   The need for culture-specific psychometric tests led to the Namibian Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare’s decision in 2012 to standardise the DAT-L for the Namibian context and requested. Mindmuzik Media to assist in this process......read more

Geist Picture Interest Inventory H. Geist, Ph.D.   This test is widely used (nearly a million administered), especially with culturally different and educationally deprived individuals, to identify vocational and avocational interests. It requires a minimum of language because items ask the examinee to simply circle the one picture in a series.....read more

Ideas for Career Practitioners: Celebrating Excellence in Career Practice Edited by Mary McMahon & Wendy Patton This book represents a compilation of ideas that career practitioners use in their everyday work and covers all facets of what is broadly termed career guidance.  Presenting a smorgasboard of 48 ideas from over 50 experienced career.....read more

Jung Personality Questionnaire (JPQ) L.B.H. du Toit   The Jung Personality Questionnaire is based on the personality theory of Carl Gustav Jung and was constructed to serve as an aid in vocational guidance, especially at schools. The JPQ gives a profile of a person’s personality structure within the framework of Jung’s typology. It is,.....read more

The Career Development Questionnaire (CDQ) R. Langley The Career Development Questionnaire was developed to provide an instrument evaluating the level of career maturity and readiness of adolescents and young adults to make career decisions. Assessment is made in five areas: Self-information, Decision-making, Career information, Integration of.....read more

The Self-Directed Search Questionnaire (SDS) J. Gevers, R. du Toit & R. Harilall The purpose of this questionnaire is to measure the occupational interests of all high school pupils and young adults of different cultural backgrounds. The inventory consists of four sections, each of which is structured around Holland’s six personality types,.....read more

The South African Vocational Interest Inventory (SAVII) R. du Toit The purpose of the SAVII is to measure the occupational interests of all South African learners in Grades 8 to 12.The questionnaire consists of 126 items, divided into six fields of 21 items each: Practical Realistic (P) Scientific Investigative (W) Artistic.....read more

The Values Scale (VS) R. Langley, R. Du Toit & D.L. Herbst The Values Scale was developed to provide an instrument measuring the following values: Ability utilization; Achievement; Advancement; Aesthetics; Altruism; Authority; Autonomy; Creativity; Cultural identity; Economic rewards; Financial security; Own lifestyle; Personal.....read more