The school-to-work transition (STWT) period is crucial for students, and a protean career orientation (PCO) is important for a successful transition. The present study aimed to examine the effects of PCO on proactive career behaviors, the underlying mechanisms, and the development of PCO using a coaching approach. Study 1 was conducted based on…

National Career Development Association (NCDA) is excited to release the re-imagined 7th edition of their influential guide to career assessment. Re-conceptualized and renamed to "A Comprehensive Guide to Career Assessment," the "Guide" contains important information career counselors, educators, and practitioners will find…

We surveyed Australian adolescents and parents to test differences and congruence in perceptions of adolescent career development tasks (career planning, exploration, certainty, and world-of-work knowledge) and vocational identity. We found that, for adolescents (N = 415), career development tasks (not career exploration) explained 48% of the…

Despite the importance of recruiting highly qualified individuals into the science teaching profession, little is known about the effectiveness of particular recruitment strategies. Over 3 years, 34 college science majors and undecided students were recruited into paid internships in informal science settings to consider secondary science teaching…

This qualitative study of 20 student affairs master's students explored their career plans and perceptions of the field. Five themes emerged from interviews with participants who considered leaving student affairs to pursue other careers: (a) distance from the institutional mission, (b) student affairs as devalued work, (c) lack of fulfillment,…

Aims to raise interest in the application of problem-solving appraisal to the career planning process, through organizing and presenting relevant findings from the literature. Presents challenges for future researchers. (CH)

The purpose of the study was to determine if Holland's theory could predict students' expressed satisfaction with their college major choices. The hypothesis that students who had made congruent choices would express significantly greater satisfaction than students who had made incongruent choices was generaly upheld. (Author)

Results suggested that occupational choices for adolescents were based in part on the degree of positive relationship between their self descriptions and various occupational stereotypes they held. (Author)

Study results suggest that a guidance experience designed to test appropriateness of choice can be beneficial even after a college major has been chosen. (CJ)

TO EXAMINE SPECIFICALLY THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STUDENTS WHO HAD DECIDED ON A VOCATION AND THOSE WHO HAD NOT, TWO SEPARATE STUDIES WERE MADE, ONE OF COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND THE OTHER OF STUDENTS PLANNING TO ENTER COLLEGE. IN STUDY I, 6,289 MALES AND 6,143 FEMALES FROM 31 INSTITUTIONS WERE TESTED BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE SURVEY NEAR THE END OF THEIR…

This study sought to analyze the relationship between scores obtained from the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) and the Occupational Plans Questionnaire (OPQ). The sample consisted of 169 eleventh-grade students. Only limited correlation was found between students' career maturity and occupational plans scores. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of self esteem in occupational choice behavior. It was tentatively concluded that high self esteem persons tend to look at their own needs and relevant attributes in determining the satisfaction with their occupational choice, whereas low self esteem persons look more toward external…

Measured the effects of a vocational rehabilitation-based workshop on 48 men's and women's commitment to career choice. Addressed four components of Phillips' career counseling model: self-definition, readiness, decision making, and choice and commitment. The workshop helped clients exhibiting low levels of career commitment or low levels of…