Integrating Individual Differences in Career Assessment: The Atlas Model of Individual Differences and the Strong Ring

Career assessment methods often include measures of individual differences con structs, such is interests, personality, abilities, and values Although many researchers have recently called for the development of integrated models, career counseling professionals true long faced the challenge of integrating this information Into their practice The authors examine the use of Integrated models to enhance the career counseling process, including Armstrong, Day, McVay, and Rounds's (2008) RIASEC based Atlas Model of Individual Differences (using Holland's 1997, typology of 6 interest types Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional [RIASEC]) and Armstrong, Smith, Donnay and Rounds's (2004) basic Interests based Strong Ring These models provide a structured framework for presenting clients with assessment feedback that emphasizes connections between interests, personality, and abilities