Presents brief opinion statements of 15 past-presidents of the National Career Development Association (formerly National Vocational Guidance Association). Past-presidents discuss major advances in vocational guidance movement during past 75 years and predict future of vocational guidance. (NB)

In this interview, the director of the Federal National School-to-Work Office explains the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. This comprehensive, systemwide investment covers all age groups and is designed to help communities examine their workforce preparation programs, identify gaps, and devise plans for a system that serves all students. (MLH)

Relates Holland's theory of vocational choice and congruence between personality and work environment to Cass's model of lesbian/gay identity development. Suggests that Holland's congruence and Cass's interpersonal congruence concepts need to be considered in career counseling with lesbian/gay clients. (SK)

Organizations should provide a mutually beneficial approach to career and personal growth for a number of reasons: (1) people are the prime assets of any organization; (2) people develop through training and experience; (3) loyalty to one employee is considered by some to be outdated; (4) cost of losing employees is high; and (5) skills give a…

Integrated computer-assisted career counseling and guidance systems use computers to assess self-knowledge and identify likely careers and counseling to discuss and analyze results. In Australia, a number of U.S.-developed and Australian-adapted computerized tools and integrated systems are in wide use. (JOW)

The effectiveness of career guidance activities is often impaired because they attempt to provide all things to all students. A primary focus of refining programs must be the individualization of services to meet an variety of student needs. (JOW)

In the "new" workplace, workers must nurture their own careers by allowing themselves to explore options, developing the desire to achieve goals, developing a professional identity outside of the current job, avoiding a victim mentality, committing to continuous lifelong learning, and realizing that they are entitled to any job or career for which…

Advocates evaluation of career development programs and services through multidimensional approach utilizing adaptations from methodologies found in evaluating cognitive instructional programs. Focuses on accessing various forms of knowledge necessary in career decision making through introspective, retrospective, and observational procedures.…

Survey of career and employment counseling showed that little counseling evaluation was being done in schools, colleges, universities, community agencies, or Canada Employment Centres. Absence of evaluative information places service at risk of being discontinued. Those in leadership positions have to be convinced of need for more and better…

Discusses how DuPont is helping its employees cope with managing two careers by offering a series of workshops for employees and their spouses. (JOW)

Offers advice to those considering graduate school about what to expect from their education and about career prospects. (Author/VWL)

Unplanned events affect everyone's career. Counselors should give up the unfounded assumption that career decisions are the logical outcome of a "true reasoning" process and broaden their view. Counselors should teach clients that unplanned events are a normal part of career development and how to generate unplanned events. (EMK)

Two black women who were among the first of their cohort to break into the white male-dominated world of managerial science reflect on their academic careers. (JOW)

Suggests that the career self-reliance model that proponents represent as a model shift, has, in reality, been the cornerstone of U.S. economic life for the last two centuries. Discusses the valuable precepts of career self-reliance as a useful counseling model as well as its serious, unexamined flaws. (JOW)

Provides a link between marketing theory and application in helping students use what is taught to attain employment goals. Presents proposals from marketing concepts, as well as practical ways to encourage students to see themselves as assets and market themselves accordingly. (Author/JOW)