How to choose the right vocation : vocational self-measurement based upon natural abilities; the mental ability requirements of the fourteen hundred vocations, including: 362 professions, arts and sciences, 344 commercial enterprises and businesses, 700 trades and skilled vocations, with 720 self-testing questions / Holmes Whittier Merton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merton, Holmes Whittier, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocational guidance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 312 pages)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Other Title:

How to choose the right vocation

Place of Publication:

New York : Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1917.

Summary:

"This book aims to meet--so far as it is possible to do so without expert personal counseling--the urgent need of individual guidance in Choice of Vocation: First, by presenting a practical analysis and description of man's Vocational Mental Abilities and Characteristics; Second, by suggesting a large number of interesting mental "tests" which enable one to self-chart one's vocational aptitude; and, Third, by citing the different mental abilities and characteristics, before described, which are specifically required in each of the fourteen hundred distinctive vocations"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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