[Review of the book Methods of Choosing a Career

Abstract

Reviews the book, Methods of Choosing a Career by F. M. Earle (1932). The book is essentially a report on a rather extensive experiment conducted by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. It involved 1,200 children who left school at the age of approximately 14 years. Half of them, picked at random, were given vocational advice on the basis of rather intensive study by the Institute and half were controls and had merely the usual school conference. Results are provided in great detail. The book is in no sense a manual for the counselor but it does give some suggestive procedures and forms. It recounts an interesting experiment which vindicates the psychological approach. Psychologists interested in vocational guidance should look into it. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)