Considers unique career development issues of lesbians. Reviews available literature on lesbians and work, drawing parallels between work experiences of lesbians, nonlesbian women, and other minority status groups. Presents three models of career development in women and explores applicability of each theory to increasing understanding of lesbian…

Considers several avenues for stimulating study of the contextual aspects of career behavior. Reviews literature covering career barriers, a conceptually relevant construct, from the perspective of Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT); advocates for the study of contextual supports as well as barriers; and proposes additional context-focused…

Surveys women student affairs administrators to examine relationships between career development, organizational commitment, and life satisfaction. Analyzes the effects of age, position title, educational attainment, years employed in higher education, and years in current position. Results indicate a significant relationship between career…

Asserts that what are currently regarded as peripheral career development activities will move to the center of career counseling. Argues that counseling in the informal economy and environmentally concerned career counseling will move up the agenda as traditional concepts of careers fade away. (Contains 23 references.) (Author/GCP)

Reviews literature on personality and vocational behavior within the framework of the Five Factor Model, in the following clusters: personality and choice-related processes, general career processes, occupational satisfaction and well-being, and organizational outcomes. Summarizes themes and suggests future research directions. Contains 170…

Career research in South Africa 1980 to 1997 focuses on Holland's and Super's theories, the constructs of career maturity and life roles, career counseling and education, and career assessment. A unifying framework could be the concept of indigenous psychologies: emphasizing people's understanding of themselves and the world. (SK)

Provides personal views of the career development journey, focusing on the work of John Holland, the developmental perspective promoted by JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, and John Krumboltz's social learning theory. Shares unique insights about the context of their work and views of the future workplace. (Contains 27 references.) (GCP)

Introduces the concept of career rehabilitation, a paradigm that proposes integrating perspectives from vocational rehabilitation and career development. Encourages counselors to assess how vocational handicaps secondary to a disabling problem can affect a client over his or her "worklife" and to adopt a life-span approach to career decision…

Assesses the relative contributions of social support and interest-occupation congruence in job satisfaction and tenure. Congruence predicted 13% of the variance in job satisfaction for men while social support accounted for 10% of the variance in job satisfaction for women. Neither congruence nor social support predicted tenure. (Contains 35…

A literature review on the Career Development Inventory since 1979 found support for its sensitivity and specificity as a measure of readiness to make educational and vocational choices. Research is needed on its predictive validity. Revision should address increasing the reliability of the two cognitive scales. (63 references) (SK)

Discusses Community Service Learning for Unemployed Youth, a program that uses service learning, career development, and community development principles with unemployed youth. The program actively engages young people in their own learning by giving them the opportunity to perform services that directly benefit their community. (Author/MKA)

Describes the collaborative efforts of the National Career Development Association, National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, and Career Development Training Institute at Oakland University, which resulted in the emergence and recognition of the important role of career development facilitators (CDFs). Summarizes the development of…

Describes collaborative efforts of the National Career Development Association, National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, and Career Development Training Institute at Oakland University which resulted in the emergence and recognition of the important role of career development facilitators (CDGs). Summarized development of CDG…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine career-life issues of successful women in the Americas. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 30 interviews were conducted with successful women in Canada, Argentina and Mexico. Themes were pulled from the interview transcripts for each country, analyzed and then compared across countries, looking…

The paper looks at the value and need for theory, specifically as it relates to career development/career education for the deaf. A review of the literature provides an overview of major theoretical ideas regarding career development. An interactive adjustment model is described which incorporates four parameters: personal characteristics,…