Examines the professional career and personal characteristics of Scott Goodnight, a pioneer in the field of student personnel work and the first president of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (then known as the National Association of Deans and Advisors of Men). (Author/NB)

A framework for integrating parental influence into adolescent career counseling has these steps: development of a trusting relationship; exploration of the valence of parental influence; and interventions depending on whether parents have positive, negative, or no involvement. (SK)

Suggests 13 ways for career planning and placement personnel to provide career information to students: tailor messages, resist "loading down" syndrome, use goal setting, promote career knowledge, avoid jargon, avoid cliches, get student feedback, use anecdotes, help students visualize career messages and jobs, explain both sides of job, destroy…

Examines important factors that impede ethnic minorities' career development. Discusses relevant and practical career intervention strategies for persons of color to increase their active and meaningful participation in the national work force 2000. Culturally appropriate career intervention strategies for fostering career development in this…

Notes that increasing pluralism of Canadian society offers opportunities for research into cultural identity, components of value systems, interactions between people of different values, and effects of these on career development. Cautions career development investigators and/or practitioners to attend to needs of less visible, minority cultures,…

An interview with Donald Super focuses on life stages, determinants of career choice, role of career counselors, matching versus developmental emphasis, multicultural and gender issues, applications of theory, and future directions. (SK)

Identifies the many subgroups within the African-American population and suggests guidelines for career counseling with different subcultures: rural and urban lower class, middle class, and underclass. (SK)

More employers are offering opportunity for career development and continuous learning in return for high performance and productivity during an employee's tenure. (Author)

In today's ever-expanding U.S. economy, unemployment levels are at 30-year lows and the job market continues to swell. Every industry is fighting a labor shortage and bemoaning the costs of employee turnover. Companies with extensive training and career development are most likely to retain employees. (JOW)

The Career Maturity Inventory was revised in 1995 using previously unpublished longitudinal data for item selection. The new inventory has 25 attitude and 25 competence items, each yielding a score that measures degree of career maturity of conative and cognitive variables, respectively. (SK)

Discusses matters that arose from the implementation of a national scheme to provide better career management for research staff. Proposes recognition of a role for researchers in the wider educational functions of a university. (DDR)

Notes that four computers and writing specialists and one librarian who had found work in a variety of nontraditional, nonteaching positions were asked to meet at LinguaMOO and talk about their careers. Contains a version of that conversation as edited for print purposes, and the annotations and responses made after the fact by the participants.…

Reaffirms and updates the 10 "Imperatives for the 90s" articulated in a 1993 issue of "The Changing Role of Career Services" (J. R. Rayman, 1993). That volume identified 10 imperatives for the 90s specific to career services in colleges and universities. Reaffirms those 10 imperatives, provides additional support for their legitimacy, and offers…

David Blustein, Ellen Hawley McWhirter, and Justin Perry present a social justice agenda for action in vocational psychology in their article "An Emancipatory Communitarian Approach to Vocational Development Theory, Research, and Practice." They build on robust work in counseling psychology over recent decades by using the critical work of Isaac…

In this article I argue that we need a greater understanding of the role of emotion in career development and career management. Notions of careers as sequences of events and experiences and new relational approaches to organizational career development suggest opportunities for exploring the experience, expression, and management of emotion…