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longer one (24 items with dichotomous response, agree or disagree) to
be used in an evaluation process in the context of individual or group
career counselling. The CMI-C allows for a total adaptability or career
readiness result, and a partial result in three dimensions of adaptability
- concern, curiosity and planning37.

The Portuguese version of the Career Adaptabilities Scale38,39,40 known as
“Escala sobre Adaptabilidade” (EA), allows us to evaluate four dimensions of
adaptability, designated as concern, control, curiosity and trust, and has a
total of 28 items, seven by dimension, with answers within a five-point
scale, where one means "very little" and five means “a lot”.

Examples of Activities

Using the shorter version of CMI-C 35

Students with higher scores in CMI-C demonstrate greater career
readiness or adaptability. These students can be invited to
participate in interventions that favour their involvement in deep
and specific exploration processes of the labour work, either based
on interpretation and reflection on the results of interest
inventories, or through a more experiential approach, noting and
experimenting activities.

In turn, students with lower CMI-C scores may be invited to
engage in broader career exploration processes, from intervention
activities designed to the clarification of values and the
development of identity.

Using the longer version of CMI-C

In counselling, psychologists can begin by explaining the concepts
of readiness and adaptability, demonstrating the importance of
guidance and concern for the future, and their relationship with
career planning, and focus on the content of the Concern sub-scale
items, discussing with students such indicators.