Testing vocational interests and personality as predictors of person-vocation and person-job fit

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 206-226

  Ehrhart, Karen Holcombe ^a   Makransky, Guido ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Master Management International

Author keywords

Job characteristics; Person job fit; Person vocation fit; Personality; Vocational interests

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247206554     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072706298105     Document Type: Article

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