Task-approach skills, in vocational psychology dictionary

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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology

Task-approach skills

An important construct in Mitchell and Krumboltz's (1996) learning theory of career choice and counseling, task approach skills refer to abilities used in career decision-making. Mitchell and Krumboltz assume that such abilities are learned and include both cognitive and performance abilities. Examples of task approach skills include processes of thought and perception, typical combinations of thoughts and emotional responses, and habits of work. People use task approach skills for a variety of purposes in the pursuit of making wise career choices; such purposes include coping strategies to manage the demands others place on the individual while making decisions, how the individual interprets such demands in relation to both self-observation and world-view generalizations, and in building a mental model to account for and predict the sequence of events unfolding in the career decision-making process.

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