CDM®-R: Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making® System–Revised

The award-winning CDM-R provides a self-scored assessment that helps students and other career planners identify their occupational interests, values, and abilities - and match these dimensions to career options. This contemporary tool pinpoints career clusters and yields results that can be linked to future job area interests and opportunities. CDM-R has been used successfully by millions of junior high and high-school students, individuals preparing to enter the job market, and those who are returning to the workplace or considering changing career directions.

The CDM-R Theoretical Base

The CDM-R reports six interest area scores, each corresponding to one of the six RIASEC themes:

Key Features

The CDM-R assesses users’ interests and helps them to self-assess their abilities, work values, and school subject preferences. Once career clusters are identified, the CDM-R provides a decision-making process for exploring specific occupations and learning about the education and training requirements. The CDM-R received the Exemplary Practices Award from the American Counseling Association's Association for Assessment in Counseling.

Level 1

Level 1 is ideal for middle and junior high school students, and individuals with limited reading ability. This level takes the users’ RIASEC scores to identify clusters for exploration. It also shows them how to relate their abilities, values, and school subject preferences to occupations that they would like to explore. Users have found that this level is helpful with Special Education students.

Level 1 features:

• 96 Interest Survey items that are easy to read (fourth-grade reading level) and be scored in less than 30 minutes
• Easy hand-scoring with all item responses on one page
• Single booklet that includes interpretive information with updated job charts for the six CDM-R career interest areas that are organized into 18 career clusters

Level 2

Level 2 is designed for high school students, college students, and adults with average or better reading ability.

CDM-R booklet

• Projects job prospects through 2014
• Includes emerging jobs and STEM jobs (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Backed with research in the U.S. and many other countries which has demonstrated the effectiveness of the CDM with both males and females in diverse cultures

Level 2 offers:

• Extensive inventory of 120 updated and gender-neutral items that yields results in 20-40 minutes
• Easy administration and hand-scoring
• Listing of relevant college majors and training programs
• An attractive and easy-to-use Interpretive Folder, allowing users to take their two high scores in the six interest areas to suggest three or four relevant career clusters for exploration. The CDM-R has 18 separate career clusters, each consisting of occupations with similar RIASEC codes, as follows:

Norms

The normative sample was controlled for age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic region. Special education students also were included in the sample.

NOW AVAILABLE!
CDM-R Tour of Your Tomorrow 3rd Edition Career DVD

“Tour of Your Tomorrow” (3rd edition) follows the direction set by the Career Decision Making System-Revised (CDM-R) and RIASEC occupational information systems. This seven segment DVD shows how Interest Areas identified by the CDM assessment relate to career interests, skills, jobs, and the importance of lifelong learning. Enthusiastic and real workers give “insider views” of their jobs and workplaces. Compelling action and captivating interviews help viewers identify role models with interest patterns and goals like their own. Within the six CDM/RIASEC Interest Areas a wide range of workers show how personal traits, abilities, work values, and training options connect to careers.

CDM-R is now online!

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• Rich Feller, PhD
• Arthur J. O’Shea, PhD