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Career Choice – The new online career guidance system in Croatia

The paper presents a new computer-assisted career guidance system developed in Croatia – Career Choice. The Career Choice is a free online system designed for career guidance and counselling of individuals preparing for educational transitions, rethinking their careers, or facing a career change. The system relies on the principle of person-environment fit, and as vocational advice suggests the careers that are the most congruent to an individual's preferences. The system takes into account a total of 31 job aspects - such as communication, writing, caring for others, working conditions, independence, earnings – by which any occupation can be described. The client estimates the preference of each aspect in the desired career, and the subjective importance of each aspect in the process of career choice. The database consists of 225 occupations (job titles) evaluated by experts in all aspects. The system selects the most appropriate occupations for a client based on compensating algorithm rooted in Expected Utility Model (EUM). Career Choice counselling system has gone through two evaluation phases. In the first phase, 229 high school students, 625 university students, and 130 employees used the system and in the second phase, 208 high school students used the system. In this paper, the findings from both evaluation phases were summarized and the basic elements of the system's validity were presented, along with some elements of clients' satisfaction with the system.

Career Choice ; computer-assisted career guidance systems (CACGS) ; job aspects

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