NCE & CPCE--CAREER DEVELOPMENT EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Lifestyle and career development have been emphasized since
The beginning of the counseling and guidance movement and are still major areas of concern
Prescriptive career decision-making theories:
Describe ideal approaches to decision making.
Descriptive career decision-making theories:
Describe how individuals actually make vocational choices.
Frank Parsons
In 1908 he started the Boston vocation bureau. He wrote Choosing a Vocation, which was published
posthumously.
Which career counselor feels that the need for career counseling exceeds the need for therapy?
John O. Crites
Some statistics about women in the workforce
Women are nearly 60% of the US workforce. 72 million women. Women own half of all businesses
Displaced homemaker
,A displaced homemaker is a woman with children who now needs to go out to work to support her
family. They could also be called "reentry women". 75% of all divorces occur in families with children.
Glass ceiling
A form of occupational sex roll stereotyping that can limit women's careers
Lavender ceiling
A form of stereotyping that can limit gay lesbian bisexual transgender individuals careers.
Do students want career development in middle and high school?
Yes. K through 12 students want it. 3/4 of 11th graders want help with career planning and eighth
graders one twice as much help.
Pervasive indecisiveness
A person who has a lifelong pattern of severe anxiety related to decision-making
Victor Vroom
Motivation and Management expectancy theory. Employee performance is influenced by VALENCE i.e.
will the work provide rewards such as money a promotion or satisfaction? EXPECTANCY i.e. what does
the person feel he/ she is capable of doing? And INSTRUMENTALITY i.e. will the manager actually give
the employee the promised reward like a raise?
Valence, Expectancy, Instrumentality
Factors from Victor Vroom's Expectancy Theory of Motivation.
Dual-career family.
,Also called dual-worker couple. Both partners have jobs. Dual-career families have higher incomes than
traditional families.
Dual-career stats.
Greater than 54% of all marriages are dual wage earners. When examined if the family has children,
60%. In 1950 20.4% were dual career families.
Vocational guidance
An educational process within the school system
Career counseling
Therapeutic service for adults performed outside an educational setting
College degree vs. high school degree
Bachelors level worker brings in about $57,000 a year, high school diploma brings in about 33,500 a year.
Stats on college education.
Asian Americans have highest percentage of individuals with bachelors degree. Then white, African-
Americans, and Latinos. All groups have raised graduation rates since 1990
"The changing view of work "
In the past work was seen as a means to an end now it's seen as a vehicle to express identity self-esteem
and status.
H. R. Kaplan
Posited that work fulfills emotional needs. Kaplan studied lottery winners who quit their jobs, they felt
dissatisfied. A Dutch study confirmed his findings.
, Leisure time
Time away from work in which individual has freedom to choose what they want to do it is "self
determined" time.
Career
Sometimes defined as the total work one does in a lifetime plus leisure.
Avocation
A leisure activity that one engages in for pleasure rather than money
Family leisure time.
Dual-career couples have less leisure time that can add stress for both partners and the family as a
whole
Title VII
Title VII of the civil rights act from 1964 was amended in 1972. Stated women would have equal work
opportunities and equal job pay
Watch dog for Title VII?
The equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC). The organization watches and protects
guidelines that prohibit discrimination on the basis of color, sex, religion, race, or national origin
Uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures
Since 1978 the EEOC has enforced these guidelines, which speak to adverse impact. A selection process
is said to have adverse impact if it does not meet the 80% (four-fifths) rule. Hiring rates for minorities are
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Lifestyle and career development have been emphasized since
The beginning of the counseling and guidance movement and are still major areas of concern
Prescriptive career decision-making theories:
Describe ideal approaches to decision making.
Descriptive career decision-making theories:
Describe how individuals actually make vocational choices.
Frank Parsons
In 1908 he started the Boston vocation bureau. He wrote Choosing a Vocation, which was published
posthumously.
Which career counselor feels that the need for career counseling exceeds the need for therapy?
John O. Crites
Some statistics about women in the workforce
Women are nearly 60% of the US workforce. 72 million women. Women own half of all businesses
Displaced homemaker
,A displaced homemaker is a woman with children who now needs to go out to work to support her
family. They could also be called "reentry women". 75% of all divorces occur in families with children.
Glass ceiling
A form of occupational sex roll stereotyping that can limit women's careers
Lavender ceiling
A form of stereotyping that can limit gay lesbian bisexual transgender individuals careers.
Do students want career development in middle and high school?
Yes. K through 12 students want it. 3/4 of 11th graders want help with career planning and eighth
graders one twice as much help.
Pervasive indecisiveness
A person who has a lifelong pattern of severe anxiety related to decision-making
Victor Vroom
Motivation and Management expectancy theory. Employee performance is influenced by VALENCE i.e.
will the work provide rewards such as money a promotion or satisfaction? EXPECTANCY i.e. what does
the person feel he/ she is capable of doing? And INSTRUMENTALITY i.e. will the manager actually give
the employee the promised reward like a raise?
Valence, Expectancy, Instrumentality
Factors from Victor Vroom's Expectancy Theory of Motivation.
Dual-career family.
,Also called dual-worker couple. Both partners have jobs. Dual-career families have higher incomes than
traditional families.
Dual-career stats.
Greater than 54% of all marriages are dual wage earners. When examined if the family has children,
60%. In 1950 20.4% were dual career families.
Vocational guidance
An educational process within the school system
Career counseling
Therapeutic service for adults performed outside an educational setting
College degree vs. high school degree
Bachelors level worker brings in about $57,000 a year, high school diploma brings in about 33,500 a year.
Stats on college education.
Asian Americans have highest percentage of individuals with bachelors degree. Then white, African-
Americans, and Latinos. All groups have raised graduation rates since 1990
"The changing view of work "
In the past work was seen as a means to an end now it's seen as a vehicle to express identity self-esteem
and status.
H. R. Kaplan
Posited that work fulfills emotional needs. Kaplan studied lottery winners who quit their jobs, they felt
dissatisfied. A Dutch study confirmed his findings.
, Leisure time
Time away from work in which individual has freedom to choose what they want to do it is "self
determined" time.
Career
Sometimes defined as the total work one does in a lifetime plus leisure.
Avocation
A leisure activity that one engages in for pleasure rather than money
Family leisure time.
Dual-career couples have less leisure time that can add stress for both partners and the family as a
whole
Title VII
Title VII of the civil rights act from 1964 was amended in 1972. Stated women would have equal work
opportunities and equal job pay
Watch dog for Title VII?
The equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC). The organization watches and protects
guidelines that prohibit discrimination on the basis of color, sex, religion, race, or national origin
Uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures
Since 1978 the EEOC has enforced these guidelines, which speak to adverse impact. A selection process
is said to have adverse impact if it does not meet the 80% (four-fifths) rule. Hiring rates for minorities are
