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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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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A critique of MBTI

Career assessments are part of a holistic career counselling process. Assessments have a role as a starting point for clients to “identify, ...

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Safe cross-cultural practice

When working with a client, it may become apparent that the client is lacking some self-knowledge to assist with exploring their career opti...

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A and B Personality Types 1

Lately I have been wondering about the basis for personality types, and I have been running down a few rabbit holes to try and track down th...

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Buros Center for Testing

I think most of us working in the Career Development field would know of the Buros Center for Testing, which - since the founder's death...

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Evidence and MBTI

Last year I read Merv Emre's book on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (2018), which was a fascinating read. I had expected a clear-eyed e...

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Cross-group comparison where there is little data

When we are trying to evaluate something, such as an assessment, we need to know what the norms are for the base culture, to be able to make...

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Some career assessment resources

If we take qualitative assessment instruments to mean those “methods [which] are flexible, open-ended, holistic, and nonstatistical” (Goldma...

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Career Assessment in New Zealand

Career development grew in New Zealand from the "Employment and Vocational Guidance Service", established in the 1970s, to ...

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