An Australian bank developed a four-stage career development strategy for information technology workers: (1) career coaching sessions with executives; (2) career coaching seminars for line managers and team leaders; (3) staff career planning workshops; and (4) online career development support. The program resulted in increased satisfaction,…

The purpose of this workbook is to help youth to take the lead in planning for their adult lives. The workbook shares important information, encourages youth to begin thinking about life after high school, and offers ideas they can use to plan routes to reach their goals. This is not a workbook parents, educators or others should hand to young…

The effects of a career development course on career decision-making self-efficacy were investigated. The course was primarily designed to help undecided students with career decision making. A pretest-posttest nonequivalent group design compared students who completed the course (n = 30) with a quasi-control group of students who were enrolled in…

In this article, the ways in which self-efficacy has influenced career assessment and practice during the past 25 years are explored. Focus is on research describing or evaluating specific theory-based interventions or programs with particular attention to experimental, quasi-experimental, and program evaluations studies published in refereed…

The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…

Discusses the importance of managing one's own career development and the need for a personal advisory group and peer contacts. Points out that the movement and fluctuation in the marketplace means more frequent career changes. (JOW)

A selected annotated bibliography that reflects recent (1977-1983) approaches to career development in organizations, including government agencies, educational institutions, business, industry, and the military. The list was compiled from searches of PSYCINFO, ERIC, and ABI/INFORM. Includes author and subject indexes. (NRJ)

This paper addresses HRD's current absence from career development discourse and practice. The authors suggest a framework for reintegrating career development into the HRD function and offer recommendations for future action. (Contains 1 figure.)

Essential to any career planning program within an organization are the following elements: (1) goal setting; (2) career path time schedule; (3) transitions, or changes necessary to implementation of the plan; and (4) predicted and actual outcomes. (SK)

Individuals with a strong career direction are more likely to be positive about organizational change. A career development workshop involving psychometrics helps individuals create personal development plans that encompass both personal needs/aspirations and the impact of the organizational environment. (SK)

Five career transition points for planned mentoring are career awareness, preparation, orientation, opportunities, and advancement. Successful mentoring should discard concepts of informal mentoring, be customized, be part of a larger context, give participants a sense of ownership, and be inclusive. (SK)

This is a review of the development of the author's ideas on the protean career. The origins include both personal experience and scholarly inquiry. I first applied the adjective ''protean'' to careers in 1976, in "Careers in organizations." It described a career orientation in which the person, not the organization, is in charge, where the…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore career orientations of business master's degree seekers in comparison with social work degree pursuers in an effort to provide insight for educators and policy makers. Design/methodology/approach: A web-based survey of current master's students from two graduate schools at a large university…

The relationship between transition planning/coordinating interventions and transition outcomes for secondary-aged youth with disabilities was explored in this systematic review. A total of 31 studies intervening with 859 youth with a wide variety of disabilities were reviewed. Using the transition intervention framework of Kohler and Field (2003)…

This study investigated the relationships among facial disfigurement, career plans, and rehabilitation outlook in 34 adolescents with burn injury. (Author)