Why Did We Spend So Much Time on This?

Over the last four years, Barry and I have devoted countless hours to creating, researching, writing, revising, and editing the Basic and Comprehensive Versions of the Career Vectors System. We strongly believe that it fills a gap in the field in that it provides an instrument specifically designed for professionally-oriented individuals which provides a depth of information in the three critical domains of vocational interests, skills, and personality characteristics. It also contains a comprehensive coverage of occupational possibilities.

Barry and I share a deep passion for helping people who are vocationally confused or distressed understand themselves better. We see ourselves first as counselors and teachers.

Hope Lovell Newman, L.M.S.W.
President, Career Vectors, LLC

Unlike Barry, my path to this field was not linear. I studied Japanese Literature and Law and worked in a variety of jobs over many years before finding my way to social work, and then finally career counseling and assessment.

If a Career Counselor had used Career Vectors and had helped me understand myself better at a younger age, I believe I would have made better decisions much sooner and saved myself many years of distress.

I have always been the same person, with the same strengths and weaknesses, and I had a very clear pattern of interests, skills, and personality traits. During both college and graduate school, I sought out career counseling and took some assessment instruments. However, the tests and counselors did not help me identify these patterns. I did not understand myself well, nor did I understand how to identify and explore different career options that provided a better job/person fit.

I believe the CVS would have helped me to identify my core vocational characteristics and preferences, increase my understanding and awareness of myself, and helped me make better career choices and decisions.

Giving people access to information about themselves and explaining the stages of the career development process is critical. Being poorly matched to a job or occupation can feel terrible for all involved- employers and employees. If the time, effort, and resources we have spent results in many more people finding work that is a better match, then we feel deeply satisfied that we have made a difference.