The purpose of this Handbook is to stimulate discussion among senior managers, managers, practitioners, administrative staff, collaborating partners, and stakeholders about how staff members can make the most effective use of their time in implementing changes in the design and delivery of career interventions for adolescents and adults who need…

Jobs for the Future (JFF) and BigFuture want all students to have the sense of agency and purpose that comes with feeling hopeful, motivated, excited, confident. An essential step in achieving this is to ensure that high school students and their families receive a timely and abundant flow of information, resources, and advising in order to…

This packet is a career development teaching guide on decision-making developed for high school teachers. A brief introduction to skillful decision-making is followed by five lessons on decision-making. Each lesson includes one or more of the following: goal, behavioral objectives, teaching activities, and teaching procedures (includes content and…

The document is part of a series that reports the findings and accomplishments of the Models for Career Education in Iowa project which was initiated to research, define, and describe an emerging concept of career education. The focus of the report is on the process of career choice and career decision making. Career choices are too often made on…

The book was written to help individual adults accomplish four objectives: (1) to increase self-awareness by developing a personal philosophy, (2) to understand the psychology of career choice, (3) to gain occupational self-understanding, and (4) to formulate a personal plan for self-development. Exercises in introspection and projection into the…

This booklet was written to help students and other young people decide on a job or career, find the training they need to pursue that career, and get the financial aid they may need to attend school. The first suggestion in the booklet is that individuals who do not have a high school diploma either finish high school or get a General Education…

The Career Education for Women workshop is divided into six three-hour sessions; the leader's manual duplicates the participant's, with the addition of suggested procedures and appropriate remarks, and a listing of sources for materials. Although the leader is encouraged to adapt the presentations, the basic order of the workshop should be…

The participant's portfolio contains a wide and rich variety of resource materials, tests, exercises, and activities designed to provide an orderly process for self-understanding and an understanding of the world of work, in a six-session career workshop for women. Moving step-by-step through the workshop sessions and through between-session…

Intended to help college and high school students use vacation breaks for taking action on vocational decisions, this activity guide describes the process of career decisionmaking and presents an outline to be followed when actually engaging in the process. The outline includes five segments, each made up of a checklist of suggested activities…

The major purpose of the pre-occupational track of Manitoba's ABE program is to enable students to get first-hand information about the world of work and to get information about themselves that will assist them in crystalizing an occupational choice. The program is designed to move students from an Awareness stage through an Exploration stage to…

To help schools use community volunteers as part of their guidance program a Community Resource Directory has been developed by South Dakota Career Education in cooperation with District I Youth Services System (Model Rural Development). The guide can be particularly useful when meeting some of the student needs cited in the South Dakota…

This volume provides the reader with a number of useful insights about educational and career planning. The authors followed up their college alumni over a span of two decades, reporting both initial and subsequent jobs held by the graduates of each college department. To organize such a document, the authors have indicated Dictionary of…

Two separate sections, one for grades K-3 and the other for grades 4-6, describe career education activities related to five developmental goals; the uniqueness of one's self; personal qualities and attitudes affecting careers; wide varieties of career choices; and decision making skills. Preliminary materials list 15 career clusters and also…

This paper presents some of the concepts and developments now being pursued by the Occupational and Career Analysis and Development Branch of the Ontario Department of Manpower and Immigration. The paper summarizes the decisions made during the preliminary development, the means toward individualizing the program for occupational decision-making,…

Presented is a booklet for teenagers about life planning. It discusses hopes and dreams that adolescents may have and gives tips for reaching goals. A sentence completion exercise is included to help readers set goals. Four important goals for teenagers are presented and discussed: (1) graduating from high school; (2) waiting to have a baby; (3)…