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Author: John D. Krumboltz
Are your clients' assumptions and beliefs blocking their career decisions? Frequently, individuals hold onto career beliefs that prevent them from achieving their career goals.
The Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI) is the ideal tool to use at the beginning of the career counseling process to explore clients' assumptions, generalizations, and beliefs about themselves and the world of work. The CBI provides a springboard for counselors and clients to discuss important issues that are usually overlooked. It will help clients discover new options and alternative ways of attaining their career goals.
Counselors who have used the CBI report that it is the only inventory that probes clients' hidden values and ideas--beliefs that may be at the root of the clients' feelings of being stuck and unable to take appropriate action.
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- Manual$50.00Includes details on reliability, validity, scoring, etc. and a review-only copy of the CBI form. PDFs are not refundable.In Stock
- Individual Report$15.00Builds a report that interprets an individual's CBI scores. You invite participants to take the survey and Transform™ generates their reports.In Stock
- Report About Me$20.00Interprets and reports on your CBI scores. You complete the survey and Transform™ generates your report. Transform will connect this report to the "Send To" email provided at checkout. Note: This product is for a single use, with automated survey administration. For multiple uses, buy instead the Individual Report product in quantity needed.In Stock
- Transform Survey Hosting (Data)$2.75Minimum purchase of 20. Allows you to administer the CBI as an online survey using Mind Garden's Transform™ System. Includes data collection: data file with participants' raw data and raw scale scores. Optionally, Individual Reports can be generated from the collected data - requires the purchase of report licenses. Customization services are available.In Stock
- License to Administer$2.75Minimum purchase of 50. Allows you to administer the CBI as an online survey via a non-Mind Garden survey system or as a paper and pencil survey. The downloadable PDF file includes one copy of the CBI, scoring key, and permission to administer the CBI up to the quantity purchased. The PDF is non-refundable.In Stock
- Manual: Printed for shipping$60.00Includes details on reliability, validity, scoring, etc. and a review-only copy of the CBI form. This is a paper product. The manual will be printed, bound, and shipped to you (FedEx shipping costs apply).In Stock
Feature of the CBI
Purpose: Measure participants' assumptions, generalizations, and beliefs about themselves and the world of work.
Length: 96 items
Average completion time: 25-30 minutes
Target population: 8th grade reading level or higher
Administration: For individual or group administration
Uses of the CBI
- Clarifying career transitions
- Choosing a college major
- Expanding career aspirations
- Planning a future career
Scales
The 25 CBI Scales are organized under five headings.
My Current Career Situation:
Employment Status
Career Plans
Acceptance of Uncertainty
Openness
What Seems Necessary for My Happiness:
Achievement
College Education
Intrinsic Satisfaction
Peer Equality
Structured Work Environment
Factors That Influence My Decisions:
Control
Responsibility
Approval of Others
Self-Other Comparisons
Occupation/College Variation
Career Path Flexibility
Changes I Am Willing to Make:
Post-training Transition
Job Experimentation
Relocation
Effort I Am Willing to Initiate:
Improving Self
Persisting While Uncertain
Taking Risks
Learning Job Skills
Negotiating/Searching
Overcoming Obstacles
Working Hard
Selected References
An article by John Krumboltz about the CBI "Challenging Troublesome Career Beliefs"
See Dr. Krumboltz's excellent book on career counseling, Luck is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career.
From the Manual
"The fundamental premise upon which the CBI is based is that people make a number of assumptions and generalizations about themselves and the work world based on their limited experiences. Whether accurate or not, these assumptions affect the way people behave. If people believe something is true, they act as if it is true. What appears to be inappropriate or self-defeating behavior may become understandable when one discovers the assumptions and beliefs on which each person operates.
"The way in which people make career decisions, search for jobs, and seek promotions depends on what they believe about themselves and the world of work. If their beliefs are accurate and constructive, they will act in ways that are likely to foster the achievement of their goals. If their beliefs are inaccurate and self-defeating, they will act in ways that make sense to them but may hinder accomplishment of their goals. The CBI can help counselors initiate explorations of the career assumptions on which their clients operate."
-- John D. Krumboltz, Manual for the Career Beliefs Inventory
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