The nature of career exploration is reviewed along with factors that may inhibit exploration by learning disabled (LD) students. LD students may be less able than normal students to deal with the tension and uncertainty involved in exploration, and be less able to reflect on the meaning of experiences. (CL)

Describes University of Arizona's Career Week and how the university prepares for this event: the event is organized and marketed by students; profits are distributed among students; Career Week functions under an advisory committee of faculty and student-council presidents; Career Week combines job placement and career planning activities; and…

Presents two-week unit on work designed to move from an overview of occupations to a more in-depth study of the meaning and value of work. Describes third grade unit which featured slides, songs, poetry, and creating a student factory. Notes that activities can be adapted for other grades. Includes highly personalized learning experiences and…

Conducted two-part study to examine reasons underlying finding that experimentally provided vocational constructs are used in less complex, less differentiated ways than are subjects' personally elicited construct dimensions. Findings support significant differences between use of elicited and provided constructs and helped to isolate personal…

Job shadowing pairs a middle or high school student with an employee at the employee's workplace. The student observes what it is like to be involved in the particular career. They can see how the skills they are learning are applicable and ask questions about the career. (JOW)

This research brief provides highlights from the full report (published separately) that describes the ninth annual High School Exit Survey in AISD. The survey was administered online to seniors in every AISD high school during Spring 2011. In total, 3,793 seniors completed the survey, for an adjusted response rate of 87.3 percent.

Career interests and self-efficacy (using J. L. Holland's realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional types for both) and the big five personality dimensions (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) were used to predict college students' career exploration behaviors approximately 18…

Schools of Library and Information Science (LIS) have often promoted alternative careers as a marketing tool and some students enrol in LIS schools specifically to explore alternative careers. The literature on LIS career patterns continues to suggest that those non-traditional careers are desirable and viable alternatives. Yet the survey research…

The third article in a four part series on career exploration gives some insights into the latitude of distributive education careers and includes some emphasis on student-involving activities. (Author/BP)

Conceived and designed by University of Manitoba Athletic Director Joyce Fromson, the Mini-University stresses experiential career oriented learning programs focusing on introducing children, ages 10 to 15, to the areas of study of the participating faculties. (Author/ABB)

The Department of Labor, through a grant with the National Center for O*NET Development, has provided three instruments for use by career development practitioners. These include an interest inventory, a work values inventory, and an ability assessment. The tools are designed to provide results that can assist persons interested in learning about…

In May 2001 the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) released to the public several O*NET Career Exploration Tools designed to help clients learn information about themselves for use in focusing their career search. This chapter provides a practical overview of relevant information about the O*NET Career Exploration Tools, including a…

Career exploration and counseling are experiencing a resurgence through the school-to-work movement. Counselors are rethinking their roles and emphasizing self-reliance and student accountability for their own career paths. (JOW)

Either semistructured interviews derived from systems theory framework (STF) or standard interviews were used with 18 counseling clients. Measures of self-exploration, environmental exploration, and attribution style supported the merit of STF interviews as an alternative career assessment method. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)

Notes that policy process is open to influence of scientific knowledge and that it is value-laden and can also be moved by emotional arguments. Examines this paradox and presents information on how family scientists can meet both demands. Explores field of public policy as new career option for family scientists. (Author/NB)