Kuder Career Search with Person Match: The Third-Generation Approach

Abstract

The Kuder preference records have enjoyed a long and respected role in career guidance. Frederic Kuder introduced his first preference record in 1939, establishing the model of forced-choice responses and homogeneous vocational preference scales that was the basis for the present Kuder General Interest Survey. In its second generation, the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, it was enlarged to include criterion group scales revealing the survey-taker's similarity with persons in an array of more than 140 occupations and college majors. A third generation has been developed in the past decade: Kuder Career Search with Person Match. In this version, the survey-taker's vocational preferences are matched not with occupations, but with each of a number of persons in an array of occupations representing the full spectrum of the world of work. This article introduces Kuder's radical approach to career guidance.