ABSTRACT
The career literature regularly portrays career assessment as being on a continuum from quantitative through to qualitative career assessment. For some time in the career literature there has been a challenge to the misconception that career assessment was founded solely in a quantitative paradigm. Indeed, it is ironic that F. Parsons has become synonymous with the birth of psychometric, quantitative career assessment. For Parsons' viewpoint was always that there was a need for both quantitative and qualitative career assessment. H. L. Reid's oft-quoted question of how to undertake narrative career counselling processes can be reinterpreted within career assessment as how to combine qualitative and quantitative assessment in meaningful ways. The Integrative Structured Interview (ISI) process reflects the application of the storytelling approach to career assessment; it also reflects an attempt to provide guidelines for creating qualitative processes that can be used with quantitative career assessment.
