Career Development and Vision Boarding

I was wondering if some cultures affiliate more to structure within qualitative assessments; and some less so. By qualitative assessments, I...

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Can we assume that US tests fit New Zealanders?

The population of New Zealand is quite diverse (Massey University, 2026), and I think we like to think of ourselves as being a very diverse ...

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Making sense of testing

We use career assessments in order to help our clients in identifying their unique characteristics. Each assessment is designed to measure d...

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Using career assessments from other countries

It is quite a process to create, test and normalise career assessment instruments (Stuart, 2004) , but  living in the Antipodes, where we ha...

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Evaluating employee strengths

In my reading, last year, I encountered a meta-analysis (of sorts) by Miglianico et al. (2022) where the researchers evaluated 27 value or s...

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Some assessment tools

While there are many assessment tools freely available online, some of them are of dubious quality. Hosted by Yissim, the Hebrew University ...

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Evaluating career assessments

I found a website recently which provides an evaluation of a number of work and life instruments, such as the Career Decision-Making Model s...

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The Interpersonal circumplex assessment

The Interpersonal circumplex (IPC) theory is "is a two‐dimensional model in which various interpersonal qualities can be mapped in a ci...

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Values and O*Net instruments evaluated by Buros

This is part 2 of an article published earlier this year ( here ), exploring commonly used tests which have been evaluated by the Buros Cent...

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Common tests evaluated by Buros

This is a topic I have covered before ( here ), but there is always more to say! I thought I would create a list of tests which are commonly...

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A range of personality tests

When we are casting about for our next logical steps in a career journey, sometimes it is worth doing a number of assessment inventories to ...

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Exploring the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (UK Edition)

Our longer term characteristics - our personality - can be “defined as the relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviour...

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Career challenge card sort

Anyone who wants to try a digital card sort might enjoy the SparkPath offering at McMaster University: via a set of digital challenge cards....

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My dream job

Despite having written a blog for years, I had never really thought about formalising my own tips and tricks for working with clients. I am ...

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Drawing the threads of story

I first encountered narrative drawing therapy on a short residential course, many years ago. One of my fellow attendees was a narrative draw...

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