The Comprehensive Career Guide and Self-Interpretation Profile and Guides used with the COPS, CAPS and COPES assessments are in the process of being completely updated and revised. The Guides will reflect new norms and will contain updated job titles that will be cross-referenced to the O*NET. The O*NET codes will replace the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes. Occupations will continue to be cross-referenced to the most current Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) and the COPSystem Career Briefs Kit and Cluster Booklets Kit.

The Comprehensive Career Guide may be used to score two or more of the COPSystem self-scoring assessments and to plot and interpret a summary profile of the assessment results. There are separate Self-Interpretation Profile and Guides for the COPS, CAPS and COPES when a summary profile is not needed. There are also Guides for the machine-scoring forms of the assessments, which contain the same information without scoring instructions. The identical occupational information is available in both machine-scoring and self-scoring Guides. Each contains a list of the 14 COPSystem Career Clusters with sample occupations and information about related courses of study, skills and abilities needed, and suggested activities to get experience for occupations in that particular Career Cluster. Each Guide also contains a "Using Your Scores in Career Planning worksheet", a "Program Planning Guide" for educational planning and a "Local Job Interview Sheet."

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