A discussion of the difficulties of entering into a television career and of the need for more contact on the international level between young and creative television people. (AA)

Relates the experiences of a first-year television reporter and weekend news producer/anchorman. (AEA)

Concerns evaluation of the effectiveness of an adapted Self-Directed Search for blind persons. Results revealed significant differences in number and consistency of occupations under consideration, satisfaction and certainty about vocational plans, and interest in general information about self and occupations. Most SDS users rated the experience…

Undergraduates (n=108) completed the Self-Directed Search twice in 12 weeks. Higher private self-consciousness was related to more stable interest scores on the Enterprising scale, but not on the other five scales. (Contains 31 references.) (SK)

Explored variability in reliability scores on a career scale, the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (K. Taylor and N. Betz, 1983). Of the 49 studies examined, 41% reported score reliabilities. Of the five subscales, Problem Solving shows the lowest score reliability. Higher score reliability is associated with age, racial/ethnic…

Asserts that the revised Taxonomy has the potential to provide a common framework and language for connecting current teachers with prospective teachers, illustrating how teacher recruitment efforts that target high school students can use the revised Taxonomy to plan units and how the revised Taxonomy enables participating high school students to…

Investigates K-12 assistant principal job satisfaction and career objectives in Orange Country, California. Results of two surveys (2000, 2002) of assistant principals find over two-thirds of those responding are satisfied with their jobs and desire to become principals within the next 5 years. Discusses reasons why some assistant principals are…

Explores unconscious influences on career choice using a psychoanalytic-existential framework. Case studies illustrate how internalized images of their fathers led two men to management and entrepreneurial careers and influenced later feelings of burnout. (Contains 72 references.) (SK)

Exploratory study of women in education administration focuses on women's decisions to enter that field. Findings suggest that career aspirations of women who ultimately enter the field are intricately related to their career commitments, positional goals, and leadership orientation. Factors, such as their administrative role models greatly affect…

Measures of career self-efficacy and work activity self-efficacy were completed by 405 male and 346 female Singaporean university students. Men had significantly higher self-efficacy in realistic and enterprising occupations, women in artistic, investigative, and social occupations. Gender differences in career self-efficacy were predicted by…

A computerized occupational sorting task was completed by 119 subjects, partially supporting the Theory of Compromise and Circumscription. Those with low degree of career compromise ranked interests before prestige, then sex-type. In moderate and high compromise conditions, there were no significant differences between prestige and sex-type…

For 712 subjects, decidedness before and after using Making Better Career Decisions, an Internet career planning system, was compared. Most were willing to recommend it and half reported moderate increases in decidedness. Perceived benefit depended on subjective perception of career decision-making progress after using the system. (Contains 29…

Examined personality variables in vocationally undecided college students (n=510). Classified five subtypes of vocational undecidedness according to each subtype's characteristics: anxiety, self-esteem, work, relationship or leisure orientation, locus of control, vocational identity, perception of barriers, need for information, and…