Self-Directed Search Assessment (SDS)

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This paper discusses how finding the ideal path for the career-minded individual is a function of matching the person's desires and innate talents with the responsibilities of a particular career and how making these matches possible is the purpose of Dr. John Holland's Self-Directed Search Assessment (SDS). It discusses the purpose and description of the SDS inventory by its application to a fictional psychologist named Wendy and attempts to show how people who choose careers that match their own types are most likely to be both satisfied and successful.

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"With more than 500 publications stimulated since his original theoretical explanation in the 1959 publication of A Theory of Vocational Choice, Holland's theory stands as the most influential of the extant theories (Isaacson & Brown, 1999, p. 26.). Having successfully combined the science and practice of career development, Holland has authored several books in support of his SDS evaluation, including among others Self-Directed Search for Career Planning (Holland, 1970), Manual for the Vocational Preference Inventory (Holland, 1967), the Vocational Exploration and Insight Kit (Holland et al., 1980), My Vocational Situation--An Experimental Diagnostic Form (Holland, 1980), and Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes (Gottfredson, Holland, & Ogawa, 1982)."

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