Vocational Development

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Vocational Development

• Role of personality Hollands theory
• Assessment of vocational interest the importance
  of a good match (Strong Interest Inventory)
• Part-time employment Is it a good thing for
  teens?

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Part-time employment

• Huge increase in latter decades of 20th century
• Between 1900 and 1940, of teens who completed
  HS rose from lt10 to gt50
• Part-time employment rate is about 75 in US
  lower in Canada very low in Europe, Japan
• Vast majority of jobs in low level service
  industry (fast food mall shops)
• gt 15 hrs per week during school year associated
  with negative outcomes
• Most earned income spent on trappings of
  adolescence