The Early Career Spotlight column aims to illustrate accomplishments, or problems that are overcome, by early career school psychologists. In each column, a different school psychologist or NASP leader is featured. This issue features questions and answers with Libby Malone, who works as a school psychologist for Denver Public Schools at West…

Kathleen McEvoy describes her experience after achieving tenure at Washington & Jefferson College (Pennsylvania). She reflects on how she could have better prepared for her post-tenure academic existence and how the teaching profession could do a better job managing the earning of tenure. In retrospect she realizes that she may have been able…

In this article, the author discusses the meaning and importance of the long-term view in the academic profession. Taking the half-century view of a career allows everyone to conceptualize his/her work as both a solitary venture and a group effort. As your career develops and you build alliances and partnerships with colleagues--and then with…

This essay recounts the authors' experiences as community college faculty members in a learning community (LC) linking first-year composition with a class in life-career planning and development. The authors begin with a learning community story shared recently over drinks with a group of community college English teachers. They use the story to…

A coherent career plan is a comprehensive document that relates learning experiences to career goals. Components include personal data, career assessment information, career and educational goals, education plan, work experiences, and evidence of competency attainment. South Dakota's School-to-Work Tech Prep Initiative requires coherent career…

A view of possible careers in physical education in the year 2001 A.D. and suggestions for career planning for the future are outlined. (JMF)

Students who are at high risk of dropping out of high school encounter serious difficulties and challenges in their school-to-work and school-to-school transitions. While acknowledging that the prevention of high school dropout requires a comprehensive and systematic helping approach, this article attempts to take a close look at one of the…

What creates the "one-and-done" scenario is the National Basketball Association (NBA) rule that prohibits a player from graduating from high school and going directly to the NBA. The league's obviously cynical and self-interested rule prohibits a prospect from signing to play before at least one year has elapsed. In contrast, Major League…

Focuses on Alvin Toffler's "electronic cottage" concept as a way of helping counselors become aware of futuristic thinking patterns, changing work roles and patterns in society, and techniques for preparing students for these changes. (Author/ABB)

Asserts that, when university career center pursues a strategic plan and becomes market driven, it is not only perceived to be a quality organization, it is one. Explains philosophy of market-driven management, marketing concept, and implementation of market-driven career planning and placement center. (NB)

This article describes a step-by-step process that will help to increase the odds that career development efforts will be tuned into the current pulse of the organization and can be used repeatedly to respond to future directions. (SSH)

Advises that internship applicants avoid becoming emotionally drained by preparing for internship early in graduate school. A time line of activities for preparing internship applications is suggested, including maintaining records of practicum and clinical activities, analyzing competencies and training needs, and focusing on course goals. A…

Successful career development programs must be based on current and future organizational requirements for management, professional, and technical personnel and should promote and guide career development planning to meet those specific needs. (SSH)

Discusses career centers as a relatively inexpensive way for management to affirm its interest in maintaining dynamic employees. Describes the Career Resource Center at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, its organization and services. (JOW)

Suggests that, in today's workplace, it is not whether people will change careers but when and how they will do it. Describes the experiences of several people who have made significant job changes. (JOW)