Presents Helen Astin's article on women's career choices and work behavior, and includes several responses to her essay. Discusses Astin's need-based work model, involving motivation, expectations, sex-role socialization, and structure of opportunity. Critiques of Astin's work center mainly on the structure of opportunity segment of the model. (BH)

Discusses the importance of involving parents in the career education decision-making process for their children. Suggests specific ways in which parents can help. (JOW)

This paper was written to describe the essential tasks of a process known as Dependable Strengths Articulation (DSA) and how career development practitioners can acquire the skills to use the process. DSA, when combined with practices known as Job Magnet, helps participants identify their individual excellence and then use this knowledge to…

Career development is an inherently spiritual process. Yet many career development professionals and personal coaches shy away from any discussion of spirituality in their work. This places the career professional in a dilemma: How does one practice a spiritual occupation, but never discuss the central issue? To escape this dilemma, the author…

Describes "Career Development for Women," a workshop designed to provide women with skills necessary to make choices about their careers. Describes various types of women: deciders, explorers, dabblers, and evaders and shows how the coordinator works with them to aid in their decision making. (JOW)

To serve students more effectively, career counseling, placement, and cooperative education need to be integrated, providing a holistic approach to career development. (JOW)

Examines the limitations of present systems of management development, with particular attention to the problems caused by increasing organizational and occupational change and fluctuation. Availability: M.E.A.D. Subscriptions, C.S.M.L., University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England. (SK)

The author explains why creating new programs in an organization and maintaining the programs over time requires a good program leader, integration into the organization, and constant attention to barriers and pitfalls. (CT)

Career development could become a fad unless current needs are met, goals are set, programs are properly designed, evaluated and revised, and mutual accommodation is accepted as its philosophical basis. (JOW)

Essential to any career planning program within an organization are the following elements: (1) goal setting; (2) career path time schedule; (3) transitions, or changes necessary to implementation of the plan; and (4) predicted and actual outcomes. (SK)

Excerpts from "Counseling in Pacific Rim Countries" edited by William Evraiff include information on career counseling and development in Canada, privatization of vocational guidance in New Zealand, reconciling western and Asian philosophies in Singapore, and the future of counseling in the United States. (JOW)

The president of the City University of New York College of Staten Island reflects on her path to the presidency. She admits that even with help and advice, the climb to the top is rigorous, but that it leads to a richly rewarding view. (EV)

Addresses career development as a special task in life-span development. Discusses career development as a counseling intervention based on Eurocentric concepts, a conceptualization that might not address the needs of African American clients. Argues that individual behavior is organized with respect to values, attitudes, and beliefs of a…

Defines current perspectives on voluntary job change, documents its prevalence in North America, lists positive and negative effects, and considers theoretical frameworks, counseling interventions, and research needs. (22 references) (SK)

Five career transition points for planned mentoring are career awareness, preparation, orientation, opportunities, and advancement. Successful mentoring should discard concepts of informal mentoring, be customized, be part of a larger context, give participants a sense of ownership, and be inclusive. (SK)