The overall purpose of the Kuder inventories is consequently to investigate occupational
preferences and implicitly to facilitate identifying needs for education and training so as
to enhance decision-making concerning the start of social and working life, designing or
identifying career development directions that “open the area of possible options to
clients instead of limiting it”.
Kuder General Interest Survey, Form E (KGIS), the 1988 edition, is an evaluation
instrument for young people (6th to 12 th grade) in order to support selection for enrolment
in higher education and for adults (involved in continuing vocational training) with a
view to exploring the world of occupations and career development.
Scales employed by the Kuder inventories:
- Outdoor (0)
- Mechanical (1)
- Computational (2)
- Scientific (3)
- Persuasive (4)
- Artistic (5)
- Literary (6)
- Musical (7)
- Social Service (8)
- Clerical (9)
10 scores are thus obtained for the professional fields mentioned above; there is also a
score highlighting the level of trustworthiness of the results (scale V).
It is also possible to identify the correspondence with the three-letter Holland code. Here
they are:
- Outdoor and Mechanical activities correspond to R (Realistic).
- Scientific activities correspond to I (Investigative).
- Artistic, Literary, Musical activities correspond to A (Artistic).
- Social Service activities correspond to S (Social).
- Persuasive activities correspond to E (Enterprising).
- Computational and Clerical activities correspond to C (Conventional).
The KGIS Form E inventory is available in 3 versions: manual scoring, scanning answer
sheets and electronic scoring (with special software).