Workplace and work force changes will change the focus of career assessments to clusters of interests, skills, and values because clients will repeatedly seek employment in clusters rather than specific job titles. Career assessments will begin earlier and end later in life. (SK)

Concerns about using interest inventories with men and women are whether they do have different interests and how these differences are interpreted. With ethnic groups, interpretation must take place within a cultural context and is dependent on counselor knowledge of culture. (SK)

Discusses the influence of culture on four stages of vocational assessment. Reviews the role culture plays in problem clarification, information gathering, understanding the problem, and coping with the problem. Addresses issues in the use of standardized tests across cultures and highlights research on cross-cultural interest assessment. (Author)

Investigated the feasibility of transferring the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) into another culture. Examined engineering and law as occupations among students from the United States and Mexico. Used a validated Spanish translation of the inventory. Cross cultural predictive validity was very similar for all student groups. (Author/KS)