Career Management Skills (CMS), or Guidance Skills, are critical to successful career navigation, contributing to personal fulfillment and professional success. This study proposes the development of a new CMS self-assessment scale that is efficient and in line with the model from the European LE.A.DE.R. Project which presents, grouped into five areas, thirty CMSs that have been transformed here into as many items in the pretest questionnaire. The new scale contains fifteen items, three for each of the following subscales: Self-Awareness, Relationships, Opportunities, Conciliation, and Context. The results respect the original model by the number of factors, but these have been renamed and partly redefined to fit the selected items better. The scale was developed through a series of confirmatory factor analyses, eliminating less congruent items one at a time. The final model demonstrated a good level of both structural validity and internal reliability. The five factors positively correlated with self-perceived employability, while no significant gender differences emerged. The scale provides a valid and efficient tool for future research on the impact of CMS on educational and occupational choices and job satisfaction. It can also help guidance professionals support their clients in improving guidance skills and understand why some past career choices have not produced the desired results.
Le Career Management Skills (CMS), o Competenze orientative, sono fondamentali per una navigazione di successo nella carriera, contribuendo alla realizzazione personale e al successo professionale. Questo studio propone lo sviluppo di una nuova scala di autovalutazione delle CMS, efficiente e in linea con il modello proviene dal progetto europeo LE.A.DE.R. che, raggruppate in 5 aree, propone 30 CMS, che sono state qui trasformate in altrettanti item nel questionario di pretest. La nuova scala contiene 15 item, 3 per ognuna delle seguenti sottoscale: Autoconsapevolezza, Relazioni, Opportunità, Conciliazione, Contesto. I risultati rispettano il modello originario per numero di fattori, che sono però stati ridenominati e in parte ridefiniti per adattarsi meglio agli item selezionati. La scala è stata sviluppata tramite una serie di analisi fattoriali confermative, eliminando di volta in volta gli item meno congruenti. Il modello finale ha dimostrato un buon livello sia della validità strutturale che dell’affidabilità interna. I 5 fattori sono positivamente correlati con la percezione di occupabilità, mentre non emergono differenze significative di genere. La scala fornisce uno strumento valido ed efficiente per ricerche future sull'impatto delle CMS sulle scelte formative e lavorative e la soddisfazione lavorativa. Può anche aiutare i professionisti dell'orientamento a supportare i propri clienti nel migliorare le competenze orientative e comprendere i motivi per cui alcune scelte di carriera passate non hanno prodotto i risultati sperati.
Boerchi, D., Primo studio di validazione di una nuova scala di autovalutazione delle Career Management Skills, <<COUNSELING>>, 2024; 17 (1): 76-93. [doi:10.14605/CS1712406] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/271601]
Primo studio di validazione di una nuova scala di autovalutazione delle Career Management Skills
Boerchi, Diego
Primo
2024
Abstract
Career Management Skills (CMS), or Guidance Skills, are critical to successful career navigation, contributing to personal fulfillment and professional success. This study proposes the development of a new CMS self-assessment scale that is efficient and in line with the model from the European LE.A.DE.R. Project which presents, grouped into five areas, thirty CMSs that have been transformed here into as many items in the pretest questionnaire. The new scale contains fifteen items, three for each of the following subscales: Self-Awareness, Relationships, Opportunities, Conciliation, and Context. The results respect the original model by the number of factors, but these have been renamed and partly redefined to fit the selected items better. The scale was developed through a series of confirmatory factor analyses, eliminating less congruent items one at a time. The final model demonstrated a good level of both structural validity and internal reliability. The five factors positively correlated with self-perceived employability, while no significant gender differences emerged. The scale provides a valid and efficient tool for future research on the impact of CMS on educational and occupational choices and job satisfaction. It can also help guidance professionals support their clients in improving guidance skills and understand why some past career choices have not produced the desired results.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.