Gd. Gottfredson, THE ASSESSMENT OF CAREER STATUS WITH THE CAREER ATTITUDES AND STRATEGIES INVENTORY, Journal of career assessment, 4(4), 1996, pp. 363-381
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.