This paper presents a brief overview of the history of the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, tracing its roots back to the early days of vocational interest inventories, beginning in the 1920s. Many of the important themes of the survey construction are discussed, such as the domains assessed; content of items; response format of items; scale construction; conceptual arrangements of the scoring scales; and interpretation methods. A description and evaluation is included of the 1992 addition to the Interest Inventory. (Contains 9 tables and 13 references.) (Author/JDM)