Review of Success through Vocational Guidance

Abstract

Reviews the book, Success through Vocational Guidance by James McKinney and A. M. Simons (see record 1922-10315-000 ). The task of vocational guidance, which is usually regarded as one of measuring the individual at an early period of his life and thereupon designating him for some one vocation, is bound to give way with increasing enlightenment to a saner acknowledgement that the individual has a great number of potential vocational adaptations within him, but that he cannot make any of those that are worth while, without training. The task of vocational guidance thus envisaged becomes that of directing the individual into channels of profitable training and education. In this book, every occupation is regarded as a training place where the individual may prepare himself for further advance. Data are presented showing that with each degree of training goes a proportionate measure of advancement. Each occupation described is discussed in terms not only of the kind and degree of training required in it, but also in terms of the pathways which it opens to still higher forms of service. The book should prove generally useful in the work of vocational guidance in public schools. To the research worker it should prove provocative of investigations designed to supply the great stores of factual material which for the present such books as this are bound to want. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)