In this paper, we present a framework to examine the kinds of careers that rural disadvantaged youth would like to know about in a career guidance intervention as also related findings from two different rural disadvantaged contexts in India. Differences across gender, age group, region, and participation/non-participation in youth programmes are…

This paper sets out career-related stories of people and their struggle to make sense of a life through work. They show that career management is not primarily a matching process but, for most, the making of a life the best way one can. The nine stories from five continents have these focuses: a feeling for a career; a career is other people or…

Guidance in education is the presentation of knowledge, information, and/or advice to individuals or groups in a structured way so as to provide sufficient material upon which they may base choices or decisions. Counseling in education may be described as the interaction developing through the relationship between a counselor and a person in a…