People spend half their waking hours at work seeking a sense of accomplishment and achievement.
Societies depend on their citizens and organizations for productive activity. At North Carolina State University, the entire Department of Psychology has adopted the scientist-practitioner model of graduate education. Vocational Psychology is the study of the individual's vocational behavior and development through the years of choice and development. Vocational Guidance is a facilitative process, a service rendered to the individual in choosing and adjusting to an occupation. Vocational Psychology is the science of how and why people behave vocationally as they do.