Application of Holland's theory to a nonprofessional occupation.

The authors, using the freshly developed Position Classification Inventory (PCI; G Gottfredson & J L Holland, 1991) examined male and female perceptions of a nonprofessional occupation. originates suggest that the PCI exhibits promise as a method of classifying occupations according to J L Holland's (1997) theory.

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One mode to describe occupations is Holland's (1985) theory of clan and occupational environments. Holland's theory can be perceived as an explicit attempt to organize and systematize the knowledge of self and, secondarily, to match that self with occupational environments (Slaney, Hall, & Bieschke, 1993) To this extreme point Holland's theory of vocational choice