THE ASSESSMENT OF CAREER STATUS WITH THE CAREER ATTITUDES AND STRATEGIES INVENTORY

The Career Attitudes and Strategies Inventory (CASI; Holland & Gottfre dson, 1994) was developed to provide a tool for the assessment of seve ral facets of career status-satisfaction and personal styles and attit udes related to career stability or change, job performance, and caree r attainment level. The CASI was developed to assess career status dir ectly, rather than by inference from theoretical variables or group me mbership, by allowing respondents to express their concerns and belief s in scales that cover a range of personal and situational influences on their lives and their work. The instrument can be scored and interp reted by users, counselor's, or psychologists to provide measures of j ob satisfaction, work involvement, skill development, dominant style, career worries, interpersonal abuse, family commitment, risk-taking st yle, and geographical barriers. Counselors use the CASI as a career ch eck-up or screen to identify areas of concern to focus on in counselin g, and the instrument has applications in organizational needs assessm ent and program evaluation and in assessing the outcomes of counseling . Use of the inventory is illustrated, and needed research is recommen ded.