TY - JOUR
T1 - Adaptive vocational interest diagnostic
T2 - Informing and improving the job assignment process
AU - Kirkendall, Cristina D.
AU - Nye, Christopher D.
AU - Rounds, James
AU - Drasgow, Fritz
AU - Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S.
AU - Stark, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, DOD, or the U.S. Government. The research described herein was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Department of the Army, Contract No. W911NF-16-C-0038.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, © 2020 Society for Military Psychology, Division 19 of the American Psychological Association.
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - The history of vocational interests shows that these measures have great promise for use in job assignment, suggesting that individuals will be more satisfied and successful in their job when they are doing work that interests them. Recent research has provided empirical support for these predictions and demonstrated that the match between an individual’s interests and his or her work activities is positively related to job performance and negatively related to attrition. Building on these positive empirical findings, the U.S. Army Research Institute is investigating vocational interest measures for personnel job assignment. Person-job fit is very important in a context such as the U.S. Army, where applicants have over 140 military occupational specialties from which to choose. This paper begins by reviewing evidence for the validity of interests and discussing how vocational interest measures may be used for assigning Soldiers in a military context followed by our recent research to develop a new measure of vocational interests to improve the process of matching Soldiers to military occupational specialties. We will conclude with the next steps for this research and potential paths of implementation.
AB - The history of vocational interests shows that these measures have great promise for use in job assignment, suggesting that individuals will be more satisfied and successful in their job when they are doing work that interests them. Recent research has provided empirical support for these predictions and demonstrated that the match between an individual’s interests and his or her work activities is positively related to job performance and negatively related to attrition. Building on these positive empirical findings, the U.S. Army Research Institute is investigating vocational interest measures for personnel job assignment. Person-job fit is very important in a context such as the U.S. Army, where applicants have over 140 military occupational specialties from which to choose. This paper begins by reviewing evidence for the validity of interests and discussing how vocational interest measures may be used for assigning Soldiers in a military context followed by our recent research to develop a new measure of vocational interests to improve the process of matching Soldiers to military occupational specialties. We will conclude with the next steps for this research and potential paths of implementation.
KW - Interest assessment
KW - job assignment
KW - occupational interests
KW - vocational interests
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U2 - 10.1080/08995605.2019.1652480
DO - 10.1080/08995605.2019.1652480
M3 - Article
SN - 0899-5605
VL - 32
SP - 91
EP - 100
JO - Military Psychology
JF - Military Psychology
IS - 1
ER -