Conference paper 2011

Effectiveness of a career intervention program for career exploration; A eficácia de uma intervenção de carreira para a exploração vocacional

Revista Brasileira de Orientacao Profissional
Journal · Vol. 12 · Issue 2 · pp. 153-164
Abstract

For students attending vocational education courses, career exploration might be considered an important facilitator of the subjective organization of their training experience. For this reason, we implemented a career intervention program, aiming at improving the vocational exploratory activities by a group of high school students. In order to evaluate the impact of that program on the different dimensions of career exploration, a study with a quasi-experimental (pre-test/post-test) design was conducted, with non equivalent groups. Overall, the results seem relevant, since the career intervention had a positive and significant impact relating the two major dimensions of career exploration: environment exploration and self exploration.

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Training career exploration Career intervention Technological courses

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Department of Psychology, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Faro, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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  • EID 2-s2.0-84862089777
  • Language Portuguese