Perceived benefits of using an Internet-based interactive career planning system Export

@article{citeulike:416927, abstract = {Making Better Career Decisions (MBCD) is an Internet-based interactive career planning system designed to help deliberating individuals. The present research examined the benefits of a dialogue with MBCD, by analyzing 712 users' perceptions of its contribution to their career decision-making process, and locating variables associated with these perceptions. A pre-dialogue and a post-dialogue questionnaire were used to collect the users' perceptions of its benefits and measure the change in the degree of decidedness. Perceived benefit was derived from participants' ratings of the degree of progress they had made in their career decision-making process, whether they had learned about additional factors to be considered and their career-related preferences, as well as their ratings of the quality of the list of ” promising” career alternatives presented to them during their dialogue with MBCD. This composite perceived benefit was found to be positively associated with the users' decidedness at the completion of the dialogue with MBCD. Users' satisfaction with the length and variety of their personal ” promising alternatives” list was associated with a higher perceived benefit.}, author = {Gati, I.}, citeulike-article-id = {416927}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0001-8791(02)00049-0}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0001-8791(02)00049-0}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WMN-47VYRT5-3/2/5ebc6a4a346874685245ce1968fd111c}, comment = {Abstract Making Better Career Decisions (MBCD) is an Internet-based interactive career planning system designed to help deliberating individuals. The present research examined the benefits of a dialogue with MBCD, by analyzing 712 users' perceptions of its contribution to their career decision-making process, and locating variables associated with these perceptions. A pre-dialogue and a post-dialogue questionnaire were used to collect the users' perceptions of its benefits and measure the change in the degree of decidedness. Perceived benefit was derived from participants' ratings of the degree of progress they had made in their career decision-making process, whether they had learned about additional factors to be considered and their career-related preferences, as well as their ratings of the quality of the list of "promising" career alternatives presented to them during their dialogue with MBCD. This composite perceived benefit was found to be positively associated with the users' decidedness at the completion of the dialogue with MBCD. Users' satisfaction with the length and variety of their personal "promising alternatives" list was associated with a higher perceived benefit. Author Keywords: Career decision-making; Career decidedness; Internet; Making Better Career Decisions; MBCD; Internet-based Career Planning Systems; ICPS; Career decision-making difficulties; Prescreening; PIC; Sequential elimination }, doi = {10.1016/S0001-8791(02)00049-0}, issn = {00018791}, journal = {Journal of Vocational Behavior}, keywords = {benefits, ict}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {272--286}, posted-at = {2005-12-01 07:07:40}, priority = {2}, title = {Perceived benefits of using an Internet-based interactive career planning system}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0001-8791(02)00049-0}, volume = {62}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:416927 L3 - citeulike-article-id:416927 N2 - Making Better Career Decisions (MBCD) is an Internet-based interactive career planning system designed to help deliberating individuals. The present research examined the benefits of a dialogue with MBCD, by analyzing 712 users’ perceptions of its contribution to their career decision-making process, and locating variables associated with these perceptions. A pre-dialogue and a post-dialogue questionnaire were used to collect the users’ perceptions of its benefits and measure the change in the degree of decidedness. Perceived benefit was derived from participants’ ratings of the degree of progress they had made in their career decision-making process, whether they had learned about additional factors to be considered and their career-related preferences, as well as their ratings of the quality of the list of “promising” career alternatives presented to them during their dialogue with MBCD. This composite perceived benefit was found to be positively associated with the users’ decidedness at the completion of the dialogue with MBCD. Users’ satisfaction with the length and variety of their personal “promising alternatives” list was associated with a higher perceived benefit. IS - 2 JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior SN - 00018791 EP - 286 TI - Perceived benefits of using an Internet-based interactive career planning system VL - 62 SP - 272 KW - benefits KW - ict N1 - Abstract Making Better Career Decisions (MBCD) is an Internet-based interactive career planning system designed to help deliberating individuals. The present research examined the benefits of a dialogue with MBCD, by analyzing 712 users’ perceptions of its contribution to their career decision-making process, and locating variables associated with these perceptions. A pre-dialogue and a post-dialogue questionnaire were used to collect the users’ perceptions of its benefits and measure the change in the degree of decidedness. Perceived benefit was derived from participants’ ratings of the degree of progress they had made in their career decision-making process, whether they had learned about additional factors to be considered and their career-related preferences, as well as their ratings of the quality of the list of "promising" career alternatives presented to them during their dialogue with MBCD. This composite perceived benefit was found to be positively associated with the users’ decidedness at the completion of the dialogue with MBCD. Users’ satisfaction with the length and variety of their personal "promising alternatives" list was associated with a higher perceived benefit. Author Keywords: Career decision-making; Career decidedness; Internet; Making Better Career Decisions; MBCD; Internet-based Career Planning Systems; ICPS; Career decision-making difficulties; Prescreening; PIC; Sequential elimination AU - Gati, I PY - 2003/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0001-8791(02)00049-0 ER -