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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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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Qualitative versus quantitative career interventions

Assessment tools can be split into two broad categories, those of quantitative (number-, test- or survey-oriented, deductive, using mathemat...

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Culture-Infused Career Counselling

A person’s culture is determined by a combination of some or all of "ethnicity, gender, religion, ability, sexual orientation, age, and...

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Not slipping up with testing

Collectively, our clients have a wide range of worldviews, experiences, values, and expectations due to their cultural and social context. A...

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My favourite instrument

Now I wonder why have I not done a post - in all these years - detailing my PERSONAL favourite career assessment instrument; my most enjoyed...

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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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LinkedIn's Career Explorer

There is a new kid on the block of interest inventories, developed by the LinkedIn platform, called Career Explorer ( here ). This new tool ...

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Long answer test technique

Students tend to struggle with tackling written examinations. This only gets harder as we increase in education levels, as the complexity ...

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