This section on career transition for attorneys discusses career choice and satisfaction; lawyers as outplacement clients; lawyers' career concerns; Myers-Briggs type preference of lawyers and career counselors; career assessment tools and resources; lawyers and contract work; and helping lawyers change their jobs without changing employers. (JOW)

Presents tips for school counselors in guiding students to good career choices and future workplace environments. Highlights the need for counselors to be constantly aware of trends in employment opportunities and provides advice on developing the skills and abilities that employers of the future might require from graduates and job applicants.…

Presents a synthesis of the theoretical foundations implemented in an investigation of the principal vocational beliefs of individuals having difficulty with their career choice. Presents a survey of rudimentary results, and proposes a typology of vocational beliefs. Suggests principles of intervention to help young adults facing difficulty in…

Suggests that an important aspect of the career decision-making process is the awareness that uncertainty is normal, natural, and most likely unavoidable. Also suggests that it is as useful, and even vocationally mature, to be both certain and uncertain about making a career decision. (Author/LKS)

A practical procedure which is based on decision and information processing theories is presented to assist clients of career counselors. The proposed procedure, which is derived from the sequential elimination approach, considers the individual's limited cognitive and material resources and provides specific guidelines aimed at facilitating…

Presents a career counseling case example of a female college graduate in marketing and retailing, Sondra. Describes Sondra's personal characteristics and various family factors. Details her attempts to start a career in her two years since college graduation. (PVV)

Extends social cognitive career theory by suggesting how several of its major hypotheses can be applied to counseling. Describes strategies for assisting clients in developing a broad array of career options, analyzing and overcoming barriers to career choice, and counteracting choice-limiting self-efficacy beliefs. Discusses future research needs…

Presents a user-friendly seven-step model for the career decision process and discusses how advisors can use it to help students make career and academic choices. Offers practical guidelines for discussions between advisors and advisees. (SLD)

Nearly a century ago, Frank Parsons established the Vocation Bureau in Boston and spawned the development of the counseling profession. Elaborating on Parsons's socially responsible vision for counseling, the authors examine contemporary perspectives on career decision making that include both rational and alternative models and propose that these…

Examines the relationship between metacogniton and vocational indecision within the parameters of a theory of cognitive information processing. Results reveal a significant statistical relationship between metacognition and vocational indecision. In particular, individuals who scored higher on the measure of metacognition evidenced a greater…

Applies a cognitive information processing approach to the specific process of employment problem solving and decision making. Definitions and accompanying employment examples are followed by an exploration of the nature of employment problems. Examples of positive and negative cognitions that have an impact on the effectiveness of employment…

Two recently emerging factors are changing the role of family in career decision making: the revolutionary changes in family structure and increased emphasis on interpersonal relationships in work. Career counselors need new protocols in order to work with clients and family members. (SK)

A mailed survey was used to identify the vocational interests of physician assistants (PAs) as measured by Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS) Form R. A random sample of 2,323 PAs from the American Academy of Physician Assistants' mailing list was sent a survey to identify a pool of practicing PAs satisfied with their career choices for further…

Assessing influential factors in the family relative to career decision making is consistent with evolving postmodern approaches to career counseling. However, the challenge of measuring family influence is technically demanding considering the ongoing revolutionary changes in the structure of the family. Moreover, while measuring the impact of…

D. E. Super's (1957) theory of career development has long been of interest to careers researchers (M. Savickas, 1994; S. C. Whiston & B. K. Brecheisen, 2002). Its insightful illustration of career stages has made it widely applied by careers practitioners, Image norms may influence the career decisions and developmental tasks inherent in each…