Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making System - Revised (CDM-R)

The award-winning CDM-R system provides a self-scored assessment that help career planners identify their occupational interests, values, and abilities - and match these dimensions to career options. This contemporary tool pinpoints career clusters and yeilds results that can be linked to college majors and post-secondary job opportunities.

CDM-R has been used successfully by millions of people - including individuals preparing to enter the job market, and those who are returning to the workplace or considering changing career directions.

How to Use This Instrument

With the CDM-R Survey Booklet, users self-assess their abilities, work values, preferences, and interests. The CDR-R reports six interest area scores, each corresponding to one of the six RIASEC themes

The CDM-R uses a student's highest scores in the six interest areas to suggests three or four relevant career clusters for exploration. Once career clusters are identified, the CDM-R provides a decision-making process for exploring specific occupations and learning about the education/training requirements.

Two administration levels:

Level 1 is ideal for individuals with limited reading ability, and primarily used with middle to high school students.

Level 2 is designed for adults wishing to discover more clarity around their occupational interests, values and abilities.

Key Features:

CDM-R booklet

• Enables students to self-assesses abilities, interests, and work values - all with one system
• Easy to administer, with results in less than 45 minutes
• Revised edition projects job prospects through 2014
• Includes emerging jobs

CDM-R Tour of Tomorrow Videos
This set of six career videos helps people see how interest areas identified by the CDM-R relate to job clusters, uni majors, and training programs. Enthusiastic people engaged in real-world experiences give insider views of more than 100 careers. Running time is seven minutes per video.