Identifying barriers to successful career decisions
John D. Krumboltz
Are your client's assumptions and beliefs blocking their career decisions? Frequently, individuals hold onto career beliefs that prevent them from achieving their career goals.
The Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI) is the ideal tool to use at the beginning of the career counseling process to explore clients' assumptiions, generalizations, and beliefs about themselves and the world of work. The CBI provides a springboard for counselors and clients to discuss important issues that are usually overlooked. It will help clients discover new optiions and alternative ways of attaining their career goals.
Counselors who have used the CBI report that it is the only inventory that probes client's hidden values and ideas--beliefs that may be at the root of the clients' feelings of being stuck and unable to take appropriate action.
CBI Personal Reports
Let us do the administration for you. We will send you a link to a unique and secure online "control panel"
where you will enter clients names and email addresses. Clients will be sent an email with a secure
url address to take the evaluation* in privacy at their convenience. You can monitor their progress
from your control panel. Instruments will be scored and a report returned to you.
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CBI  Personal Reports |
Select the desired number of reports from the drop-down menu. The following volume pricing applies: | |
| Individual Report | $15.00 each |
| 2-10 reports | $14.00 each |
| 11-20 reports | $13.00 each |
| 21-50 reports | $12.00 each |
| 51-100 reports | $11.00 each |
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CBI Applications and Technical Guide
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CBI Self Scorable bookets
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CBI Research Reproduction License
| CBI Online Survey
Let Mind Garden do your data collection for you. Our Transform system* allows you to enter the email addresses of your participants - up to the purchased number - and we will administer the instrument and provide you with a csv (comma delimited) file. * click here for web-browser compatibility information Alternatively, you can administer the instrument yourself by ordering the paper form or the PDF/ electronic form. In either case, you will receive just one copy of the instrument and written license to reproduce/ administer the purchased number. Includes one copy of the scoring key - does not include the Manual. Pricing depends on quantity - please see below. |
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Uses
- Clarifying career transitions
- Choosing a college major
- Expanding career aspirations
- Planning a future career
25 CBI Scales Organized Under Five Headings
My Current Career Situation
- Employment Status
- Career Plans
- Acceptance of Uncertainty
- Openness
What Seems Necessary for My Happiness
- Achievement
- College Education
- Intrinsic Satisfaction
- Peer Equality
- Structured Work Environment
Factors That Influence My Decisions
- Control
- Responsibility
- Approval of Others
- Self-Other Comparisons
- Occupation/College Variation
- Career Path Flexibility
Changes I Am Willing to Make
- Post-training Transition
- Job Experimentation
- Relocation
Effort I Am Willing to Inititate
- Improving Self
- Persisting While Uncertain
- Taking Risks
- Learning Job Skills
- Negotiating/Searching
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Working Hard
Inventory Items
The CBI consists of 96 items. Individuals respond to each item on a five-point Likert scale, indicating how much they agree with each statement.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Strongly disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly agree |
Example Statements
| A. | Once I make a career decision, I will stick to it. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| B. | I want to do better work than other people in my group. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| C. | Getting a college education is necessary to get a good job. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| D. | I don't think any job would be right for me. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| E. | The location of my job is not important to me. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
A Journey of Self Discovery
Hoffman Vocational Values Scale 
Work Environment Scale