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. Vocational Psychology is concerned with investigation of theories of vocational choice, determinants of occupational choice, etc.