The Vocational Counseling Center was founded by decree of the Executive Board of the Office for Trade Improvement of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Trade in Zagreb on June 19th 1931. The main task of the Center was to counsel young people in their choice of trade and crafts professions as well as professional schools, based on the medical examination of physical development and health and on the psychological assessment of their abilities and motivation. For seventeen years, the Vocational Counseling Center (later renamed Vocational Counseling Department) was visited by more than 30,000 people, whereby more than 20,000 were psychologically tested. Although the number of examined and tested persons drastically increased in the last years of the Center/Department activities, the Department had been closed and psychotechnics (the prevalent activity of the Department) were excluded from the curriculum of the Institute of Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vocational Counseling Center, Vocational Counseling Department, Office for Work Psychology and Physiology, psychotechnics (applied psychology), Hrvatski Radiša