Career Quiz 2024

Sharla is working as a career counselor and gives one of her clients the SDS. This particular client scores very high on the artistic theme. It is likely this same client scored low on which of the following?

• Investigative

• Social

• Enterprising

• Conventional

A medical student comes into the University career counseling center. She needs help in determining whether to specialize in endocrinology or rheumatology. According to Super’s theory, she is in what period?

• exploration

• crystallization

• specification

• integration

A client, Sylvia has held the same job for the past 10 years since graduating. She reports that she is currently bored and unstimulated by her present position at work and is often late. During session, the client indicates that she took the position as an accountant because of her parents' influence, but her true love was in the arts. Further work with the client indicates, however, that her work-related values are consistent with her present job. You would evaluate her current difficulty to be:

• This is likely a mid-life crisis

• There is inconsistency in Holland’s codes

• There seems to be incongruence between interests and values

• A career inventory is needed to better understand the situation

Sally has been married to John for 25 years, but they are now going through a divorce. She has been a stay-at-home mother to their two children for the past 10 years, but now hopes to enter the workforce. However, she doesn’t know where to look for employment. Sally would be considered a _______ and the best way for her to get a job would be to:

• a dislocated worker; her local newspaper

• displaced homemaker; network with others who may know of available job opportunities

• underemployed; use a search engine to search for jobs online

• unemployable; go to her local workforce office

Emily & Steven have been married for several years. They have 2 school-aged children. Both of them work full-time and are considered a dual-career family. It is likely that their family engages in leisure time

• That is more costly than leisure activities of one-wage families

• About the same as one-wage families

• More often than families with one wage earner

• Less often than families with one wage earner

Which theory is associated with the concept of 'career adaptability'?

• Super’s theory

• Holland’s theory

• Gottfredson’s theory

• Krumboltz’s theory

Which theory suggests that career choices are influenced by early childhood experiences and parental expectations?

• Roe’s theory

• Super’s theory

• Gellatt’s theory

• Ginzberg’s theory

You work as a counselor in a university’s career development office. A student comes to see you and remarks that she is struggling to make a career choice. Which resource would be most useful for this student?

• SIGI

• KOIS

• OOH

• DOT

Krumboltz developed a career theory in an attempt to simplify the process of career selection. All of the following are factors which influence career development except

• Genetic endowments and special abilities

• Environmental conditions and events

• Cultural values

• Task approach skills