Describes the choices, barriers, and experiences of women employed in and seeking employment in nontraditional occupations, based on a survey of 75 women. Results indicated the women held strong views of sex role equality, and named money and benefits as the most common reason for pursuing nontraditional careers. (JAC)

A series of presentations from the APGA convention, Chicago 1972, these articles address themselves to framework, findings and implications of an examination of Project TALENT. (CJ)

Children's occupational knowledge appears to be related more to direct contact with workers and to reading achievement than to children's IQ or socioeconomic status of their parents. (Author)

Four public perspectives are identified and evaluated, and three prerequisite conditions are recommended for implementation of a comprehensive career education program. (Author)

Hexagonal configurations from the responses to the Vocational Preference Inventory by rural high school seniors were compared to Holland's model of occupational classification. (Author)

A telephone conversation with a high school transfer student reveals some telling points about career choice. (Author)

An integrated process of educational and vocational choice is presented, with attention given to the reciprocal influence that each process has on the other. (Author)

Findings show that more vocationally mature students are more realistic and have more highly integrated data in making career-related decisions than less vocationally mature students. The level and type of career decision-making skills and career-related preferences are important factors in career decision making. (Author/BEF)

Previous research has suggested that people who have liberal attitudes toward women are affected by models differently from those with more traditional attitudes. This study investigated this modeling effect by asking college seniors to rate the degree to which a variety of people influenced their career choice while in college. (Author)

This study sought to determine what differences, if any, exist in the way students from different geographic regions weight the importance of ten career-related values. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of "career" as it has been defined by a number of theorists and writers. Several categories of career definitions are discussed and their elements are analyzed. (Author)

Research for this article showed that most of the flight attendants decided "late" to enter this occupation, that others did not influence the flight attendants' choice of occupation, and that flight attendants chose their profession because it represented a change in life-style. (Author)

Results of an investigation of current attitudes toward occupation groups are presented and compared with similar investigations made during the past 50 years. (Author)

Describes methodology and procedures for an interactive approach to the interpretation of profiles in which few occupational scales are in the similar range. The answer sheet is used as a means of understanding and exploring the client's career thinking with counseling focusing on identification of client decision base, theme analysis, and…

Investigates the relationship among work values, age and curriculum choice for 153 women in an urban community college. (Author)