Adolescents need to develop career preparedness to successfully transition from school to work. Many factors represent career preparedness, which are difficult to measure comprehensively and economically. We used a career resources framework to assess key aspects of career preparedness among in-school adolescents, and adapted and validated the Career Resources Questionnaire. The questionnaire assesses 12 distinct aspects of career preparedness (i.e., occupational expertise, labor market knowledge, soft skills, career involvement, career confidence, career clarity, social support from school, family, and friends, networking, career exploration, and self-exploration). We demonstrate the reliability, factor structure, and validity evidences based on internal structure and relations with other variables of the new measure among two samples (N₁ = 186; N₂ = 1,004). In sum, the study indicates that the assessment can be used by researchers and practitioners to reliably and economically assess several key indicators of career preparedness.

青少年需要发展职业准备，以成功地从学校过渡到工作。许多因素代表着职业准备，而这些因素很难进行全面和经济的衡量。我们使用职业资源框架来评估在校青少年职业准备的关键方面，并调整和验证了职业资源调查表。该问卷评估了职业准备的12个不​​同方面（即，职业专长，劳动力市场知识，软技能，职业参与，职业信心，职业明晰度，来自学校，家人和朋友的社会支持，网络，职业探索和自我探索） ）。我们基于两个样本之间的内部结构以及与新度量的其他变量之间的关系证明了可靠性，因子结构和有效性证据（N ₁ = 186; N ₂ = 1,004）。总而言之，研究表明，研究人员和从业人员可以使用该评估来可靠，经济地评估职业准备的几个关键指标。