Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

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• Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS). This inventory is a survey of selfreported
interests and skills. It is designed to help clients understand how their
interests and skills relate to basic job interest orientations and specific
occupations.
• Self-Directed Search (SDS). A self-scoring inventory, based on John Holland’s
personality typology, the SDS will help clients understand how their interests relate
to occupational themes and specific jobs and college majors.
• Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS). Offers intra-individual
comparisons. It is similar to Holland’s six themes. Interest inventories can be used
in guidance programs, educational exploration, vocational planning, job selection
& placement.
All mentioned Interest assessment tests may be used in their standardized form
when working with immigrants. This will help evaluate the extent to which the
achieved results for a certain client are commeasurable with the rates for the relevant
population. The use of these methodologies and achieved results when working with
emigrants should be related to the rates for the country the client will study and/or
work.
The informal methodologies that may be used for interests’ assessment are:
• Checklists or structured worksheets
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For example, the BD-BG counsellor can create a list of professions and jobs which
the client can range by the extent of preference. In BD – BG counselling these lists
and questionnaires should include updated professions and jobs for as well as to
be in accordance with the specific characteristics for the job positions in the
relevant country. The extent to which client is aware of professions’ classification
in a given country can be evaluated with such lists.
• Developing lists
Clients can be offered a list of professional areas, skills, qualities in which they are
interested in developing and which are in accordance with market characteristics
and requirements for a given country. It is important to assess the areas the
immigrant/emigrant has interest and needs to develop.
• Biographical data’s analysis
Information for favourite spare time activities, schools graduated, courses and
interests in different life stages of the client are analysed. In BD – BG counselling
the biographical data analysis may be used to assess the beliefs which
predetermine professional interests and values of the client, influential factors for
the professional life up to now, criteria for decision making, etc.