Jobs for the Future (JFF) and BigFuture want all students to have the sense of agency and purpose that comes with feeling hopeful, motivated, excited, confident. An essential step in achieving this is to ensure that high school students and their families receive a timely and abundant flow of information, resources, and advising in order to…

Opportunities for the student to examine how and why significant others--parents, friends, teachers, or any individual to whom a child looks for guidance--influence his career development, and also how his career behavior and plans affect others in his life are provided through five enabling objectives and related learning experiences. The…

This report describes a research project which (1) assessed personal-social barriers to female entry into non-traditional jobs, (2) developed a treatment program to assist women in overcoming those barriers, and (3) determined program impact. A project overview, the first of four major sections, precedes a survey on barriers (section 2). Following…