Vocopher: The Career Collaboratory

Abstract

Vocopher: The Career Collaboratory is an Internet-based website (http://www.vocopher.com) that contains free career instruments and educational materials intended for practitioners, researchers, and teachers of career development. The instruments include inventories and tests designed to measure the processes that shape career development and work adjustment. Measures of content, such as interests and values, are not included. The Internet site also includes a multimedia library that contains video and audio presentations from conferences on vocational psychology and career counseling. The library also contains memorials to and presentations by important figures in the history of counseling psychology.

Keywords

Career development counselor education career assessment and career maturity or Assessment maturity development

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