The authors not past nor future a ...

The authors not past nor future a 3-stage model--Prescreening, In-depth exploration, and Choice (PIG)--aimed at increasing the quality of the career decision-making proces and its issue PIG provides a framework for a dynamic and interactive proces that emphasizes the part of career counselors as decision counselors, whose aim is to facilitate an active decision-making proces The propos pattern offers the advantages of systematic, analytical processing, while remaining compatible with individuals' natural way of thinking. The authors outline the implementation of PIG, discuss the part of intuition in decision making, and compare the PIC with the person-environment fit approach.

This article instants a general model based upon decision theory (e.g., Bell, Raiffa, & Tversky 1988; Raiffa, 1968) that can be used as a practical framework for conceptualizing and improving career decision-making processe We rely forward decision theory because, as in other decision situations, there is an individual who must make a decision, there are several alternatives to pick from, and the individual has many considerations for comparing and evaluating the alternatives. Therefore, making a career decision involves collecting and processing information. Indeed, decision theory was prolonged ago proposed as a frame of respect for career guidance and counseling (Gelatt, 1962; Jepsen & Dilley, 1974; Katz, 1966; Pitz & Harren, 1980)

There are different representations of career decisions, and the propos three-stage standard is most relevant when the client is trying to decide what to inquiry (e.g., choosing a college major) or which occupation to select that is, when the number of potential alternatives is relatively large. However, smooth when the number of options is small, the inferior and the third stages of the propos design may be carried out to guide the client. The propos transaction provides specific guidelines aimed at facilitating career decision making and increasing the quality of the proces and its consequences while taking into consideration the limited cognitive and material resources of the individual who is deliberating the options. Adapting universals from decision theory to the connection of career decisions provides a framework for a dynamic, interactive process

The process-oriented approach quick in emergenciesed in this article emphasizes the part of career counselors as decision counselors, whose aim is to facilitate an active decision-making proces The propos pattern provides a general framework for the stages of the career decision-making proces We refer to that career counselors have three characters in this framework. The first part is to discover what stage of the career decision-making proces the individual is in popularly Next, the counselor should review the individual's previous career decision-making stage or stages and, if lacked repeat one or more of them. Third, the counselor should guide the client by the and of the remaining stages. In light of this framework, we believe that the proposeed model need not be confined to a specific representation of client and that the counselor can adopt about of the model's components for each particular client and adapt the composings according to the client's pattern and needs and the counselor's penetration Finally, although we are focusing upon c areer decision making, readers may recognize systems that they have used intuitively in the past to interpret common dilemmas such as selecting community courses, renting an apartment, or buying a car. Indeed, our goal is to ready a working model that tenders the advantages of systematic, analytical processing, while remaining compatible with individuals' natural way of thinking.

We begin at providing the Prescreening, In-depth exploration, Choice (PIG) model's theoretical background and rationale; a more detailed discussion of the theoretical issues at handed here can be found in Gati and Asher (2001) nearest we present the model itself. The description of each stage is accompanied at guidelines for the stages' practical implementation in the counseling proces Then, we explore the potential contribution of relevant software and Internet sites to career counseling. Finally, we draw a comparison between the PIG standard and the traditional person-environment fit approach and discuss the part of intuition in career decisions.

Theoretical Background

single of the important aims of the career decision-making proces is finding the alternative or alternatives most numerous compatible with the individual's choices and capabilities. In many cases, however, it is impractical to explore extensively all potential career alternatives. First, the number of alternatives is many times very large (Osipow, Walsh, & Tosi, 1980) next to the first the amount of information to consider is vast: A large number of criteria or attributes are required to adequately characterize the potential alternatives and the individual's choices in a detailed and meaningful way (Gati, 1986 1998; Gati, Garty, & Fassa, 1996; Katz, 1993; Lofquist & Dawis, 1978; Matarazzo, 1986; Meir &Yaari, 1988)