Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

The award-winning CDM-R system 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 yeilds results that can be linked to college majors and post-secondary job opportunities. CDM-R has been used successfully by millions of people - including high-school students, individuals preparing to enter the job market, and those who are returning to the workplace or considering changing career directions.

How to Use This Instrument

With the CDM-R Survey Booklet, students self-assess their abilities, work values, school subject preferences, and interests. The CDR-R reports six interest area scores, each corresponding to one of the six RIASEC themes

The CDM-R uses a student's highest scores in the six interest areas to suggests three or four relevant career clusters for exploration. Once career clusters are identified, the CDM-R provides a decision-making process for exploring specific occupations and learning about the education/training requirements.

Two administration levels:

Level 1 is ideal for middle and junior high students, and individuals with limited reading ability. Users have found that this level is helpful with special education students.
Level 2 is designed for high school students, college students, and adults with average or better reading ability. 

Key Features

CDM-R booklet

• Enables students to self-assesses abilities, interests, and work values - all with one system

• Easy to administer, with results in less than 45 minutes

• Revised edition projects job prospects through 2014

• Includes emerging jobs

Norms

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

Career Videos

This set of six career videos helps students and adults see how interest areas identified by the CDM-R relate to job clusters, college majors, and training programs. Enthusiastic people engaged in real-world experiences give insider views of more than 100 careers. Running time is seven minutes per video.