Career Assessment Inventory - Vocational Version (CAI-VOC)

The Career Assessment Inventory has been updated to provide additional occupations, new suggested readings, new vocational codes, and career resources on the web.

The Career Assessment Inventory – Vocational Version compares an individual’s vocational interests to those of individuals in 91 specific careers that reflect a range of positions in today’s workforce – including skilled trades and technical and service professions – requiring 2 years or less of post-secondary training.

The inventory is used by job training specialists, psychologists, and personnel professionals who provide career guidance, adult career development, and human resource development.

How to Use This Inventory

This inventory can be used to help:

• Explore new career options with clients in vocational rehabilitation settings or one-stop career centers
• Advise individuals who are re-entering the workforce, in workforce development, considering a career change, or who have been displaced
• Guide students to focus on the patterns of interest that are important in making occupational choices
• Clarify vocational opportunities for individuals in Tech Prep and School to Work programs

Key Features

• Provides scales for 91 occupations, enabling exploration of a variety of career possibilities with the client.
• Easy to administer, taking only about 30 minutes on average to complete.
• Graphic and narrative test reports can be shared with the client and the narrative report provides a 3-page counselor’s summary.
• Combined gender scales allow for the broadest interpretation of survery results.
• Uses occupational themes based on the widely-accepted RIASEC model to assist in the interpretation and explanation of interest scores

Scales

Report Options

Profile Report
The profile report provides a graphical depiction of the individual’s score on each scale, a list of Additional Occupations to investigate, and a page of career resources on the web. There is an option to print “Understanding Your Results,” an in-depth description of how the results apply to the test taker.

Interpretive Report
The interpretive report presents several pages of graphs and narrative statements that explain the significant score elevations on each scale. It also provides additional reference information relevant to the highest scores, such as a list of Additional Occupations to investigate and a page of career resources on the web, new O*Net codes (SOC-Standard Occupational Classification) and older DOT codes (Dictionary of Occupational Titles) if required, and page references to the Occupational Outlook Handbook. There is an option to print a Counselor’s Summary, which graphically represents the individual’s scores on each scale, and “Understanding Your Results,” which is an in-depth description of how the results apply to the test taker.

Q Local Software

Q Local is a flexible, powerful scoring and reporting software tool that allows the clinician to administer and score the CAI-VOC as well as more than 30 other Pearson assessments. More about Q Local

NOTE: This software is not Mac OS compatible.