The Metropolitan Area Career/Life Planning Network invites you to:

Overview of Newly Revised Strong Interest Inventory® with Amy Ferris, CPP, Inc. Wednesday, April 6, 2005

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For nearly 80 years the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment has helped organizations attract and retain the brightest talent and has guided thousands of individuals in their search for a rich and fulfilling life of work and leisure. The most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world, the newly revised Strong is more powerful than ever, with major updates and new content that reflect the way we work today.

Amy Ferris of Consulting Psychologists Press will present an overview of the newly revised Strong and how it will be useful with our clients. Topics to be covered include:

o Why the Strong Interest Inventory® was revised
o What's new with the Strong Interest Inventory®:

• New focus on business and technology careers;
  
• The most extensive revision to the Basic Interest Scales since 1968;
  
• The updated General Occupational Themes;
  
• The revised 244 Occupational Scales;
  
• New 5-point answer format to more accurately pinpoint the client's most satisfying career, educational and leisure choices as well as measure individual style preferences in learning, leadership, risk taking, work style, and team orientation.

Amy R. Ferris has served as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Consultant for CPP, Inc., for the past 7 years. In this role she interfaces with myriad business, educational and government organizations that use CPP's assessments, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), Strong Interest Inventory®, California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™), and Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™ (FIRO-B™) instruments. She helps these organizations by providing guidance from their initial needs assessment phase through staff development and application training. Her background includes a master's degree in clinical psychology and membership in ASTD, SHRM, the Washington Area Corporate University Consortium, and the Association for Psychological Type (APT).

Review of Meeting:

MAC/LPN was again on the cutting edge of new developments in career counseling methodology at our April 6, 2005, program when Amy Ferris presented an overview of the newly revised Strong Interest Inventory® (SII). Ms. Ferris has served as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Consultant for Consulting Psychologists Press, the owner and distributor of the SII, for the past seven years. She gave us information about all the additions and changes the new instrument provides, and walked us through the new report form. Her excitement at being able to offer this new assessment was infectious, and we were pleased that the company responded so effectively to suggestions made by career counselors throughout the years. We are all looking forward to using the new SII with our clients.