CCA Career Planning & Guidance Techniques 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Super's Life-Span, Life-Space theory describes which of the following as a major life role?
- Investor
- Voter
- Homemaker (Correct answer)
- Taxpayer
Correct answer: Homemaker
Super identified nine major life roles including child, student, leisurite, citizen, worker, parent, spouse, homemaker, and pensioner.
Question 2: A client in their early 40s is questioning their career direction and feeling unfulfilled. According to Super's developmental stages, this client is MOST likely in which stage?
- Exploration
- Establishment
- Maintenance (Correct answer)
- Disengagement
Correct answer: Maintenance
The Maintenance stage (ages 45–64) involves holding on to, updating, or innovating within one's career, and mid-career questioning often occurs at the beginning of this stage.
Question 3: The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is MOST useful in career guidance for:
- Assessing a client's personality type
- Providing detailed occupational data including tasks, skills, and wages (Correct answer)
- Matching clients with job openings in real time
- Calculating a client's earning potential based on education
Correct answer: Providing detailed occupational data including tasks, skills, and wages
O*NET is a comprehensive online database of occupational characteristics and worker requirements that career counselors use for job market information and occupational exploration.
Question 4: Which career planning technique involves asking a client to write a detailed story about their ideal future workday?
- Behavioral interviewing
- Future autobiographical narrative (Correct answer)
- SWOT analysis
- Job shadowing debrief
Correct answer: Future autobiographical narrative
A future autobiographical narrative asks clients to vividly imagine and write about their ideal future, surfacing values, preferences, and career aspirations through storytelling.
Question 5: When a career counselor uses the 'miracle question' from Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, the goal is to:
- Diagnose the root cause of the client's career indecision
- Help the client envision a desirable future free of current problems (Correct answer)
- Challenge the client's irrational beliefs about work
- Explore the client's earliest career memories
Correct answer: Help the client envision a desirable future free of current problems
The miracle question asks clients to imagine waking up to find their problem is gone, which helps them articulate goals and identify steps toward a preferred career future.
Question 6: An informational interview is a career guidance tool primarily used to:
- Secure a formal job offer from an employer
- Gather firsthand occupational information from professionals in a field of interest (Correct answer)
- Complete a required step in the hiring process
- Obtain a professional reference letter
Correct answer: Gather firsthand occupational information from professionals in a field of interest
An informational interview is a structured conversation with a professional to learn about their career path, daily work, and industry, aiding the client's occupational exploration.
Question 7: The 'job club' model of career guidance is BEST described as:
- A peer-led support group where members share job leads and practice job search skills together (Correct answer)
- A formal employer-sponsored mentorship program
- An online platform for posting résumés and portfolios
- A structured one-on-one coaching program for executives
Correct answer: A peer-led support group where members share job leads and practice job search skills together
The job club, developed by Azrin and Besalel, is a structured group approach where members support each other with job search tasks, résumé writing, and interview practice.
CCA Career Planning & Guidance Techniques 3
Super's Life-Span, Life-Space theory describes which of the following as a major life role?