Research has suggested that career maturity, measured by students' readiness to make sound educational and occupational choices, is deficient in learning disabled students. The Career Development Inventory focuses on five dimensions: career planning, career exploration, decision making, world-of-work information, and knowledge of preferred…

Career development theories have focused on the human lifespan, traits, vocational choice, assessment tools, values and self-understanding to guide adults in their career decisions. However, many of these early theories have questionable value in today's diverse workforce and where business practices have changed to reflect emerging economic…

A comparison is made between the Vocational Development Inventory and the Readiness for Career Planning scale when both were administered to the same sample. Both instruments show an over-all progression in vocational maturity at different grade levels as well as differences between socioeconomic groups. Vocational maturity scores from the two…

An examination of vocational development theory and research as it applies to women. (Author)

This study compared interest, personality, and ability scores of vocationally undecided students who, after counseling, either selected a major or remained undecided. (Author)

A Career Counseling procedure for groups, derived from vocational development theory, is described in detail, field testing having suggested that it is effective and replicable. (Author)

This article describes a practical model for a systematic, sequential approach to career development in the K-12 curriculum. (Author)

Presents a study which looked at the ways in which managers affect employees' careers. The study resulted in the formation of a proposed schedule for a training program and a career planning process model. The authors also suggest a possible set of feedback guidelines. (CT)

The Westchester (New York) Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development presented a panel discussion focusing on the process of matching skills, career goals, and objectives of employees to the needs of the corporation. Their findings are presented in this article. (CT)

Outlines a workshop with the goal of helping employees take responsibility for their own career development. Activities explore three questions: Who am I? Where do I want to go? and How do I get there? (SK)

Describes opportunities and concerns involved in four human-resource development initiatives for enhancing women's career development: mentoring, training, career planning, and informal learning. (SK)

Examines career management, development, and performance; reviews the organizational career management program and outcomes of organizational development and performance; and applies R.A. Noe's model to measure outcomes and determine the relationship between programs, performance, and development. (Contains 31 references.) (JOW)

Gives an overview of the Internet and the Web and presents ways the Internet can support career planning: direct career service delivery, assessment, identification of occupations, collection of occupational and educational opportunity information, and job search. Addresses ethical issues. (SK)

Explores how women managers construct their career paths, how they negotiate the demands of their professional and personal lives, and how being a woman impacts career development. Results indicate very little gender awareness among the women interviewed despite the experiences of gender discrimination experienced in their careers. (GCP)

This annual review of the research and practice literature related to career counseling and development published during 2003 is presented in 6 major areas: professional issues, career assessment, career development, career theory, career interventions, and technology. The authors discuss the implications of the findings in this literature for…