Offers a proven six-step strategy for counseling those clients who are positioned in Region 99 in the "World of Work Map" developed by the American College Testing Program. (Author)

Assessed personality and background features of men in female-dominated professions by comparing 54 men employed in atypical professions with 63 men employed in sex-typical fields. Results showed that the men, by virtue of having entered female-dominated professions, have common personality and background factors which differentiate them from…

Although a number of female students in the entry-level of tertiary education has increased substantially in recent years, the proportion of incoming females in the fields of science and technology is low. Government and non-government organizations encourage females to enter tertiary level education for career development. However, judging by…

Achieving both career development and a successful relationship requires a give and take in career choice between partners throughout the stages of a relationship. Whose career takes precedence at different stages of the relationship? How are spousal career decisions today made differently than in the past? How can partners' career decisions be…

The author argues that an economist writing on career guidance is about as valid as a school counsel writing on manpower problems. (See EA 503 490.) (Author/JN)

Forty subjects (highly qualified and experienced in clinical judgment) were used to psychologically scale the extent to which SVIB scores and profiles supported an expressed vocational choice. Moderately high agreement was demonstrated across judges, although they differed considerably in the weights assigned to scores and configural patterns.…

The Strong Vocational Interest Blanks (SVIB) of 93 management students were scored using six new scales which correspond to Holland's six occupational types. (Author)

A new cultural imperative, marriage and a career,'' is probably emerging. This conclusion is based on study of a random sample of 180 women in junior high, high school, and college. (Author)

This study investigated the relationship between similarity of interests and likability. Consistent with the general hypothesis, a strong positive relationship was found between interest similarity and rated attraction. (Author)

Among the results were that educational attainment and marital-familial status best predicted whether women would pursue careers in the sciences, professions and teaching, or to be housewives and office workers. Of the personal variables, scholastic aptitudes and socioeconomic status, as well as early career choices were the best predictors.…

A factitious description of the destruction of the United States is given with the blame being placed on the author's theory of vocational choice and its disastrous results. The theory is based on dividing all people into personality types and all occupations into categories, and matching the two groups. (CG)

Very brief discussion of advantages and disadvantages in being a dean of students, as outlined by Hayword Hargrove. (CJ)