Reviews concepts of career indecision and career decidedness. Specifies four subtypes: developmental indecision, chronic indecision, hypervigilant decidedness, and vigilant decidedness. Highlights when career goal setting is beneficial and when it can be useless or harmful. (SK)

For technical workers who are valuable employees but not interested in managerial positions, multiple career paths offer a choice of three to five career tracks and lateral as well as vertical career opportunities. Keys to success include rigorous selection criteria and comparable recognition methods. (SK)

Describes the dual career path approach developed by the Exploration Division of British Petroleum for their management and technical employees. (JOW)

New psychological perspectives have invalidated the career theories of static personality, career stages, and life cycle. Models compatible with current psychology include objective career patterns, temporal development, and transition cycle. (SK)

Compares the career paths of three hypothetical retiring professors: the professorial path, which emphasizes teaching; the professional path, which emphasizes administrative advancement; or the entrepreneurial path, which emphasizes maximization of financial and business opportunities. Implications for the career paths of young faculty today are…

Describes "Taking Control of Your Career and Your Future, for Nurses by Nurses," a professional development initiative that consists of a workshop and follow-up career counseling. (JOW)

Most women physicians practice primary-care specialities such as internal medicine, pediatrics, family practice, ob-gyn, or psychiatry. The profession still has discriminatory practices, resulting in differences between men's and women's practices, and women are dealing in their own ways with the stresses of the profession. (JOW)

Examines whether the same good writing and speaking skills required in general management positions are also important in computer jobs. Discusses the marriage between "computing" and "communicating" and what roles good communication skills play in advancing IS (information systems) career paths. Concludes that communication…

Success in today's economy means throwing out the old career rules. The "noncareer" career is driven by passion for the work and has the fluidity and flexibility needed in the contemporary workplace. (JOW)

This article features the experience of a successful manager and describes the five keys to leadership. When asked, "What are your secrets to successful leadership?" the author offers five succinct keys to successful and sustained leadership: (1) principles; (2) passion; (3) people; (4) performance; and (5) perseverance. The details of the "Five…

By presenting their model of midcareer development, Power and Rothausen have turned counseling psychologists' attention to a set of lifespan career issues that have often been overlooked. I address three primary issues in this reaction to the model. First, their model highlights the unfortunate partitioning that has occurred in the study of…

Educational practices focus on institutional structure, be it high school or college. No matter how closely the career education with business and industry, that is not enough. The career path for the student should begin in high school and seamlessly continue through college. In this article, the author discusses how this could become possible.…

Analyzes the interview with the Publican in the previous article, based on Roe's theory on the factors that influence personality and, therefore, career choice. Analyzes the interview data in terms of Roe's propositions regarding genetic inheritance, environmental factors, early childhood interactions with parents, patterns of psychic energies,…

Highlights the relatively unexplored relationship between ordinary language explanations of career behavior and formal theories of career development. Classifies ordinary explanations of career behavior along two dimensions--extent to which explanations are founded in person or situation and extent to which they account for predictability.…

In a study designed to investigate methods for developing people in a corporate setting, data were collected from 258 male managers. Results indicate that mentoring is a significant predictor of career success for fast-track employees as well as for the steady-track form of career success. (CH)