A sample of 182 young adults about to choose their college major were randomly assigned to 2 guidance methods aimed at facilitating choosing among promising career alternatives: Table-for-Choice and Circles-for-Choice. Table-for-Choice was perceived as more effective, but individuals' confidence in their choice was higher in the Circles-for-Choice…

The present study tested the predictive validity of "Making Better Career Decisions" ("MBCD"), a computer-assisted career decision-making system. Seventy clients who had used "MBCD" six years earlier were interviewed by telephone about their present field of study or occupation and the degree of their satisfaction with their occupational choice.…

Computer-assisted career guidance systems (CACGS) are one of the tools used by career counselors to facilitate the career decision making process of deliberating counselees. These systems are characterized by some inherent contradictions and face problems which must be solved or circumvented in order to increase their usefulness. Considering the…

Monitored and utilized dialogues of 384 users of computerized information and guidance system to examine strategies used in exploration of occupational information. Analysis revealed patterns of exploring occupational information which were interpreted as reflecting different strategies-search within alternatives across attributes, or search…

Investigated processes underlying career-related preferences and readiness to make compromises. Analyzed 3,265 monitored dialogues with computer-assisted career guidance system and occupational preferences of 60 young adults. Findings supported hypotheses that perceived importance of aspect is positively correlated with degree of extremity of…

A hierarchical model for the structure of vocational interests is proposed. An interpretation of existing findings suggests that this model accounts for interrelations among the vocational interest fields better than other models. Implications of this model for vocational theory and some applications in vocational guidance are discussed. (Author)

Examines the effectiveness of computer assisted career guidance system (CACGS) in reducing the career decision making difficulties of young adults in Israel. Difficulties were found to be highest for individuals who were prior to the pre-screening stage of the career decision making process and lowest for those who were at the choice stage.…

The framework for an ideal computer-assisted career guidance system is a combination of a decision support system and an expert system. Such a system takes into account individual differences in all relevant dimensions and guides the user to the relevant information in the shortest way. (SK)

Discusses dilemmas associated with computer-assisted career guidance systems (CACGs) from an information-processing and decision theory perspective. Analyzes four problems--the occupational data base, the complexity of career decisions, dialog's effectiveness, the context in which CACGs is embedded--and provides possible ways to overcome,…