Career Assessment Inventory - Enhanced Version (CAI-ENH)

The Career Assessment Inventory - Enhanced Version assessment compares an individual’s occupational interests to those of individuals in 111 specific careers that reflect a broad range of technical and professional positions in today’s workforce. The inventory is used by guidance counsellors to help students and adults develop career and study plans, and by psychologists and human resource professionals to advise individuals on career development.

How to use this inventory

This inventory can be used to help advise individuals who are re-entering the workforce, considering a career change, or have been displaced

Key Features

• Provides scales for 111 occupations requiring varying amounts of post-secondary education.
• Easy to administer, taking only about 40 minutes to complete.
• Graphic and narrative test reports can be shared with the client and the narrative report provides a 3-page counsellor’s summary.
• Combined gender scales allow for the broadest interpretation of survey results.
• The inventory closely matches the distribution of professional and nonprofessional jobs in the labour force, making it well-suited for assessing groups with a variety of career aspirations.

Report Options

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
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 Counsellor’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-ENH as well as more than 30 other Pearson assessments. More about Q Local

NOTE: This software is not Mac OS compatible.