This study focuses on the stories of four newly arrived women and their choices of vocational education and profession. The study highlights the women's life courses and addresses how their vocational skills from their home countries can influence their choices of vocational education and profession, and how these skills are utilised in Sweden.…

Students who are gifted are often pulled in a variety of career directions because of their tendency to have many interests and passions. This study was designed to better understand the experience of adults who are gifted and their career choice. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore what career paths adults who are gifted follow,…

Vocation, as distinct from career, is not something one chooses but something to which one is called. Bringing a depth psychological perspective to debates around calling, I argue that surrendering the ego or personal will into a relationship with the unconscious psyche allows one's calling to emerge. Using a hybrid qualitative approach drawing on…

The teacher workforce does not look much like the adult population or the students they serve. Across the country, only 21% of teachers are from historically disadvantaged racial groups compared to 35% of working-age adults and 49% of students. Simple math suggests that the diversity gap between students and teachers will only close when teachers…

To test aspects of a theory of the role of personality and gender on the development of vocational interests and their subsequent effects on adult occupational choices, the authors of this study examined associations among childhood personality traits, gender, and occupational environments more than 40 years later. Participants (N = 587) were…

A sample of 125 adults completed the Dogmatism scale, the NEO Personality Inventory, the Self-Directed Search, and the Preconscious Activity scale. High scores on Openness and Originality correlated with Holland's Artistic and Investigative types, supporting the ordering of types according to potential for creative performance. (SK)

This study examined the relationship between global self concept and the congruence between the individual's current occupation and the rating on the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). Employed adults who sought career counseling completed the SCII and the Wallace Self Concept Scale. The subject's current occupation and SCII General…

The validities of two popular procedures for reporting interest inventory scores, one of which provides sex-stereotypic career suggestions, are compared in a longitudinal study of employed college graduates. Results of the study bear directly on the question of whether sex-restrictive interest reports can be justified on the basis of superior…

Administered follow-up questionnaire and Ramak Interest Inventory to 260 Israeli men and women who had first completed the interest inventory as high school seniors 19 years earlier. Found vocational interests to be moderately stable, but unrelated to satisfaction at follow-up. Suggests counseling toward appropriate within-occupation specialties.…

Work value correspondence and vocational interest congruence data were collected from 106 males and 119 females during and 1 year after a vocational assessment program. Work value correspondence accounted for a significant portion of differences in satisfaction. Results suggested that interests combined with work values provide more accurate…

Interest assessment typically consists of a person indicating whether he or she likes, dislikes, or is indifferent to a task. A more appropriate technology for career interest assessment is needed and one such program is presented. Interest assessment in career counseling has been based on the concept of the "discriminant bridge" developed by…

A study involving four adults with disabilities examined effects of presenting motion video stimuli as job choice response options in single and paired-choice formats. All participants expressed preferences using the motion video by differentially responding to the job videos. In the paired presentation, participants were more discriminating in…

Members of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (n=300) completed a questionnaire on career satisfaction. A majority reported being quite satisfied with their careers. most experienced only occasional burnout, and over half perceived their career stress as no greater than moderate. (Author/KW)

Compared developmental and historical influences in career aspirations of college women using longitudinal and cross-sectional data. Hypothesized that no response differences exist between older survey group (N=74) and younger group (N=255) when college freshman responses were compared (developmental), nor between survey respondents in 198l and…

Information and accompanying exercises in this six-part booklet are designed to provide adults with opportunities to explore interests, skills, and values as part of a program in career and life planning. Part I focuses on identifying interests, categorizing them under headings developed by John Holland (i.e., realistic, investigative, artistic,…