Without Jesus, I am nothing…

Self-Directed Search is my favourite career inventory… Holland was the founder. This theory proposes that interest will construct the personality of an individual. The interaction of an individual with the best fit environment promote better chance for him to be success and getting more satisfaction.  

My final year project is focuses on this area. Placement of an individual and the outcome. My research participants are students. In the beginning, i am still blur about the procedure to develop the major code for my participants. The time my brother asked me about the code, i am thinking of a logic but invalid process to compute it. After i met Prof Madya Sidek, He said ‘there is a developed procedure!’ I looked here, there, library, resource room, online… oh, o…. cant found!

Until last week, i found a journal ‘Four methods to determine RIASEC codes for college majors and a comparison of hit rates’ by Harrington & Feller (1993). This journal i tracked from the reference list from book. It’s worked! Thanks God. The moral of this story, check the reference list for anything resources that u might left out.

There is very easy… give 3 scores to the highest code, 2 scores to the second and 1 score  to the 3rd highest score. Finally, sum up the scores. The code is formed. ^_^ There are some ethical guideline as well… have to follow or otherwise, it is invalid.

If you are interested to know more about SDS, can contact me and we can share about this interesting inventory… Seems easy, but it is a very technical tool that can help u to make career decision. ^_^