Examined the factors in the choice of a military career, using a theoretical model. A number of factors are identified, including a need for security, a tendency to conformity, role status, and professional development that may be lost upon leaving the army. (JAC)

Ninth graders and technical college students were tested to determine the validity of the Crites model of career maturity. Results showed career choice competencies are fairly highly related to each other. There is a relationship between career maturity and sex and race of student. (Author/JAC)

Advocates an approach to career counseling that helps clients understand career choice as a developmental process, learn decision-making skills, and become active change agents in their own lives. Discusses the potential impact of this self-directed, decision-making model on career counseling. (Author)

Discusses problems faced by persons wanting to change their careers and considers how to structure experience to provide insight into variety of professions. Suggests that employment counselors look to Japanese management philosophy as new resource for career counseling for career changers. Compares models for making an initial career decision and…

Focuses on the 31 American Indian tribal colleges in the United States, discussing recruitment of graduates from these institutions. Contends that students at tribal colleges represent a nearly untapped source of talent and perspective for America's corporations and that tapping this source will require a new approach to recruiting. (Author/NB)

Reviews factors operating to limit employment and career progression of observant Jews. Discusses specific religious practices that could hamper upward mobility and mistaken perceptions of these practice by superiors and co-workers. Considers additional reasons for possible discrimination against observant Jews and supporting research. Discusses…

Implications of the dual-earner life-style as compared with other work/family types are presented. Ten work/family types are presented with predictions of future trends of each type. Suggestions are given for ways professionals can recognize the characteristics and needs of the dual-earner family. (Author/CH)

Presents a family systems perspective on career indecision as an alternative to existing theories of vocational development which generally contribute career indecision to character deficits in young adults. Speculates on family patterns that contribute to career indecisiveness and on the functions that this problem may serve within the larger…

The improved job market for college graduates over the 1984-1995 period will result from a narrowing of the gap between the number of job openings and the number of graduates entering the job market. This article discusses sources of job openings and sources of college graduates. (CT)

Theorizes that there are two primary dimensions or continua along which delays or dysfunctions may occur in career decision making: the decided/undecided state and the decisiveness/indecisiveness trait. Suggest that the combination of the two dimensions yields four distinct diagnostic categories which demonstrate the need for differential…

Explored differences between factors related to occupational preference and occupational choice for college students. Results supported the model indicating occupational preference was primarily a function of pure attraction; occupational choice was a function of attraction, expectancy of attaining an occupation, and consideration of expected…

A hierarchical model for the structure of vocational interests is proposed. An interpretation of existing findings suggests that this model accounts for interrelations among the vocational interest fields better than other models. Implications of this model for vocational theory and some applications in vocational guidance are discussed. (Author)

Discusses transferable skills which the person with a theater degree may have, and their use on the road to employability. Discusses three or four management-administrative areas in which students with a theater degree can validly pursue a career option. (SR)

More male than female physicians practice sports medicine, though women are an increasing presence. The article examines reasons for the discrepancy (e.g., lack of interest or lack of opportunity) and discusses ways to work for change and create opportunities for women in the field. (SM)

Multiple self-referent model provides comprehensive framework for understanding aspects of self-concept formation in African-American women and has implications for understanding career development issues for Black women. Uses excerpts from recorded interviews and autobiographical writings of four well-known African-American women to illustrate…