Adaptations in Vocational Guidance: Experience from the Colombian Amazon

As we move into late postmodernity, the instruments and processes proposed require research and development processes that allow them to remain in force within current technological mediations and trends. In this context, the instruments that facilitate vocational guidance processes are included. Therefore, this innovation experience arises as a response to the needs present in the Colombian context, based on two objectives: To reduce the number of items in the CHASIDE vocational orientation test, 2) To validate the resulting test. A longitudinal study with a quantitative approach was carried out, with a convenience sampling in three Colombian municipalities during 2019-2023. Quantitative statistical analysis techniques, data were analyzed including statistics of mean, variance, Pearson's correlation coefficient, hypothetical difference of means, degrees of freedom, t-statistic, P(t) and critical value of t (one tail and two tails), and others. Additionally, internal consistency was checked using Cronbach's Alpha. Managing to reduce the test from 98 items to 35 items, preserving its two dimensions (Aptitudes and Interests), with a simpler structure, which responds to a Multifactorial Profile (PM), its validation confirmed the new structure, that established 7 factors for the dimension of aptitudes, constituted by 27 items and 3 factors for the Interests dimension with 8 items. In conclusion, social changes are reflected in factor structures and their groupings within professions, leaving the unifactorial proposed by Holland in the RIASEC, to give way to interactions within aptitudes and interests. Aptitudes being more stable than interests over time.