Career Directions Inventory (CDI)

Help your prospective students with career assessment that will match individual interests with career training related programs.

Description

The CDI is a full-feature vocational assessment tool that uses the latest techniques to accurately measure an individual’s interests and then link them to valuable career and education resources. It is highly recommended for career testing, career assessment, vocational testing, training and development purposes.

Content

The CDI career assessment consists of 100 groups of activities from which an individual must choose those in which they would most/least like to participate.

The detailed, comprehensive 25-page report generated from this vocational testing provides a wealth of detail about the individual’s career interests featuring:

• Ease of vocabulary makes it well suited for school systems
• Easy to understand graphic presentation of scores and profiles
• Basic Interest Scale profile which provides a meaningful introduction to understanding career interests
• A profile of CDI scores on seven General Occupational Themes
• Specialty Clusters survey covering 22 broad areas with specific career exploration advice
• Comparisons to more than 100 educational/occupational groups
• “Gender-fair” presentation that encourages consideration of all occupations, regardless of gender

The CDI is an invaluable career testing and vocational assessment tool developed to fulfill the need for vocational interest testing that combines psychometric quality with standardization on a broad range of careers and specialties.

Student Admissions

As a Career interest test, the CDI provides valuable information to counselors, students and adults considering a career change. If an individual is unsure of which program they would enjoy the most, the CDI can help them explore the options.

Student Placement

Upon completion of a general program of study students may need additional guidance on the specific types of business that they may find most fulfilling. For example, would the student rather employ their new office assistant skills in an organization focused on personal service, such as a hospital, or an organization with less direct customer contact, such as an accounting firm? Long-term job placement success depends on whether the individual finds satisfaction in the work. And, job tenure is a big factor in a student's ability to repay their student loans. Take the test now.