How to choose the right vocation : vocational self-measurement based upon natural abilities the mental ability requirements of the fourteen hundred vocations ... with 720 self-testing questions / by Holmes W. Merton.

  • Merton, Holmes W. (Holmes Whittier), 1860-
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[1917], ©1917
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    in the order given, described by 24 pages of text. The problem is not as complex as it seems at first glance. | ; The various vocations are given under the differ- ent classifications of endeavor—Professions, Arts and Sciences, Commercial Enterprises and Trades and Skilled Vocations, so that it will be a compara- tively easy matter for a person to find the particu- lar class of vocation when his dominant ability has once been determined, and his particular vocation when he compares his own second and third power abilities with the Essential and Supporting abilities of the particular vocation under his dominant. A survey of the different mental abilities and characteristics and of the vocations dependent upon the exercise of them reveals two facts that might not otherwise be fully appreciated. First, that various parts of the same industry may arise from different abilities or different degrees of power of the same ability, as illustrated by the compositors, linotypers, bankmen, proof-readers, stonemen, pressmen, ink-makers and others in the printing trades; second, that many vocations which seem casually much alike require different mental abili- ties or different combinations of mental abilities. It is obvious that the man who would fit his voca- tion must carefully size up his own vocational capabilities and must interrogatively pry into all the probable demands of all parts of the vocation or vocations for which he seems fitted.