Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
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The Kuder Occupational Interest Survey ("The Kuder") Since 1939, the Kuder inventories have directed individuals toward making satisfying career choices. First created as paper assessments by Dr. Frederic Kuder, the Kuder family of products has grown and developed in response to changing needs and technology. The Kuder Career Planning System, now published by National Career Assessment Services, Inc. (NCASI), is an innovative, Internet-based system combining research-based interest, skills, and work values assessments with portfolio development, comprehensive educational and occupational exploration resources, and administrative database management.
The Kuder Career Planning System offers a comprehensive solution for career planners at all stages of career development. The Kuder system includes:
Kuder Online Career Portfolio
The Kuder Online Career Portfolio provides a gateway to lifelong career planning that allows individuals to store personal and academic information; search and save educational and occupational data; build resumés; and access assessment progress and results 24 hours a day from any Internet connection.
System features include:
Education Planner – for planning coursework and tracking educational progress Planning Timeline – for guiding education and career planning with a suggested sequence of events Note Taker – for documenting the career development process Occupation Search and Career Comparison – for career exploration by cluster, title, or Holland Code College Major and Instructional Program Search – for learning more about a major as well as the postsecondary options within your state. College Search and Comparison – for researching approximately 7,000 postsecondary colleges, universities, education training centers, and other institutions. Financial Aid Information and Scholarship Search – for understanding your college financing options. Resumé Builder – for creating and managing multiple resumés.
Research-Based Assessments
Research-based assessments, available in either English or Spanish, help system users discover their interests, skills, and work values and how those characteristics relate to the world of work. The assessments are designed to adapt to a variety of settings including homes, classrooms, career centers, and workforce development offices. On average, each assessment may be completed in 20 minutes or less. Individuals also have the ability to begin an assessment and complete it at a later time. All assessments feature immediate online scoring and reporting.
Kuder Career Search with Person Match (Interest Inventory) Kuder Skills Assessment Super’s Work Values Inventory-revised Administrative Database Management System
The Kuder Career Planning System provides a database system to help educators, system administrators, and counselors manage and track individual and aggregate assessment results in order to assist education planning and career guidance. For more information about using the Kuder Career Planning System and accompanying Administrative Database Management System in your setting, select the appropriate link: Educators, Counselors, Employers.
Career Planning with Confidence
Each year, millions of Kuder assessments are completed worldwide. In addition to individual assessments and statewide programs, thousands of schools, agencies, and businesses in the United States have adopted the Kuder Career Planning System and supporting curricula for use by their students and clients.
The Kuder system is the choice of so many because it is backed by over 65 years of research. National Career Assessment Services, Inc., has assembled a faculty of renowned developers, research consultants, and career counselors who collaborate to continue that research and support NCASI in achieving our mission: “To raise student aspirations and to provide career options to students and adults through self-assessment and education.”
Our goals are to:
Guide students and parents through successful 8th grade and post-high school transitions, Increase retention and graduation rates, and Provide career planning guidance and development to last a lifetime.
Register now at www.kuder.com to create an account and begin career planning. Registering gives you access to the Kuder Career Portfolio, and from there, you can purchase lifelong access to the entire Kuder Career Planning System for only $19.95 (US).
