A new approach to interest assessment, Kuder Career Search, is described. The third generation of the Kuder interest inventories, it goes beyond the conventional homogeneous and criterion group scaling to match inventory-takers with each of the individuals in a pool of criterion persons employed in a wide variety of occupations. The rationale for this novel concept is reviewed as is the methodology of person-matching. Selected validity data are reported, along with a case example.
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