Career Decision-Making System-Revised

CDM-R

Rich Feller, PhD, Arthur J. O'Shea, PhD

The award-winning Career Decision-Making^® System-Revised (CDM^®-R) provides a self-scored assessment that helps students and other career planners identify their occupational interests, values, and abilities.

Age range: 12 and older

Reading level: Fourth grade (Level 1), Sixth Grade (Level 2)

Qualification level: A Additional information

Completion time: 20-40 minutes

Administration: Paper-and-pencil

Scoring options: Self-scored

Report options: Interpretive Folder

Other languages: Spanish

System requirements: Windows XP SP3 or Macintosh OS 10.4* is required. *Apple dropped support for Coco causing these programs to quit working from 10.5 forward.

CDM-R has been used successfully by millions of junior high and high-school students, individuals preparing to enter the job market, and veterans who are returning to the workplace or considering changing career directions.

Benefits

Pinpoint career clusters and yields results that can be linked to future job area interests and opportunities.
Assess users’ interests and help them to self-assess their abilities, work values, and school subject preferences.
Use a decision-making process for exploring specific occupations and learning about the education and training requirements.
Get scores and reports on six interest areas (each corresponding to one of the six RIASEC themes): Crafts, Scientific, Arts, Social, Business, Office Operations.

Features

CDM-R consists of two levels, both designed for different types of individuals.

Level 1: ideal for middle and junior high school students, and individuals with limited reading ability. It features 96 Interest Survey items that are easy to read and a booklet that includes the CDM survey itself and interpretive information with job charts for the six CDM-R career interest areas.
Level 2: ideal for high school students, college students, and adults with average or better reading ability. A Survey Booklet consists of 120 updated and gender-neutral items, and an Interpretive Folder suggests relevant jobs, college majors, and training programs.

Career Clusters Organized by Career Interest Area

Crafts	Scientific	The Arts	Social	Business	Office Operations
Manual	Math - Science	Literary	Customer Service	Sales	Clerical
Skilled Trades	Medical - Dental	Art	Personal Service	Management	Data Analysis
Technical		Music	Social Service	Legal
		Entertainment	Education

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