Minorities need to expand their awareness and knowledge of career options. Few specifically targeted resources now exist. Printed brochures answering questions on how to pursue specific occupations, with brief biographies of ethnic minority role models, can both inform and inspire. Career counselors must find ways to serve ethnic minorities more…

Describes case of homosexual graduate student desiring to find a career that would accept him as a gay man. Describes information obtained in career counseling sessions with the client. (NB)

Examines research on career indecision through review of literature on variables consistently investigated as predictors of career indecision and tools incorporated to measure career indecision. Raises eight issues that would impact on evaluation efforts in area of career indecision. Encourages practitioners to test validity of mental models that…

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…

Assessed impact of gender and construct type in study extending research on cognitive differentiation and appropriate career choice and on vocational information and cognitive differentiation. Findings from 161 college students showed no relation between vocational structure and selection of appropriate academic major. Occupational information…

The concept of nigrescence--formation of African-American racial identity--is useful for understanding African Americans' career development attitudes and behavior. Examination of research issues related to the influence of racial identity on values, opportunities, stereotypes, career decisions, and workforce diversity demonstrate that…

Includes "Introduction" (McDaniels, Watts); "Frank Parsons: Promoter of a Progressive Era" (Watts); "Parsons' Contribution to Career Counseling" (Jones); "Light, Information, Inspiration, Cooperation" (Spokane, Glickman); "Parsons' Contribution to Career Assessment" (Zytowski, Swanson);…

Applies the social cognitive career theory to training career counselors. Proposes extending the theory to understand and influence trainees' interest, engagement, and performance in career counseling. Suggestions are made for future research and for training students to be interested, involved, and skilled in providing career counseling. (FC)

This exercise is designed to assist school counselors in assessing their knowledge of emerging theories of career choice and development. The aim is to highlight the newer career development theories and motivate counselors to review the emerging career choice and development theories. (BF)

Describes organizational and web-based resources to assist counselors in helping students with career exploration and career choice. (SK)

In this study, the relationship of expressed occupational daydreams and scores on the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were examined. Results were consistent with Holland's theory of careers. Implications for career counselors are discussed. Students were asked to provide specific biographical data (i. e., age, gender, race) and to write down their…

This research describes and evaluates a workshop aimed at promoting career specialty choice and examines relationships between measured career specialty interests, work values, and personality type. Three consecutive classes of second-year medical students (N=161) participated in a two-session specialty choice workshop. All participants in the…

This article describes the social justice activities facilitated by a university careers service. The article includes a discussion on the relationship between social justice and career development in higher education. Working examples of the activities provided by the career service focus on the delivery of career-related services to students who…

This study assesses factors predictive of the range of possible occupations considered by 166 African American high school students. There are no differences in the number of African American representative occupations (those in which 13.5% or more employees were African American) considered compared to nonrepresentative occupations (those with…

The study evaluates a test of occupational information administered to a national sample of 5000 young men in 1966, as part of the National Longitudinal Surveys of employment behavior. The measurement instrument is judged to exhibit desirable characteristics in terms of internal consistency reliability, discriminatory power, and level of…