School library media specialists have seen more fundamental changes in their jobs and in their roles within their schools than any other group of education professionals. The author started her first job as a school librarian when there were no desktop computers, and card catalogs were the order of the day. Over the course of the thirty-seven…

College teaching can be as rewarding as a K-12 career and, whether in elementary school or college, students deserve good teachers. College professors who prepare teachers can have a tremendous impact on K-12 classrooms for decades into the future. However, career paths vary widely, and the path to teaching in higher education is as unique as the…

Discusses various career paths that special librarians can have and provides two examples of librarians who included consulting and teaching jobs in their careers. Highlights include demonstrating value to management; accurate job descriptions; personal and professional responsibilities; networking; and knowing personal priorities as well as…

Steps involved in goal formulation performed by employees are examined. They include an initial goal statement, comparison of goal statement, goal statement challenge, and revision. Encourages the employee to express goals in specific terms, set up target dates, and recognize the relevance to the employee's job of these goals. (CT)

This article discusses the importance of existential meaning in career counseling, provides a case study of its application, and relates it to career development theory. Career development and counseling professionals will find existential analysis useful in their service to others. Using logotherapy, a counseling professional living in a…

Enriched Career Search, a program for helping gifted students in their career development, is divided into seven modules: (1) "Your Career and You," (2) "Self-Evaluation," (3) "Job Study," (4) "The Adult World," (5) "Group Roles," (6) "Ethical Considerations in Work," and (7) "Career…

Old Dominion University's use of a job analysis technique to validate the instruments used in the personnel selection process, with the objective of improving personnel selection, retention, evaluation, and development, is described and illustrated with instruments and data used in the program. (MSE)

In order to provide more useful and timely occupational information for program development and evaluation, curriculum design, and labor market response to employer needs, the federal Office of Management and Budget has created a standard system of occupational definitions called the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). Criteria for the SOC…

Presents a model of a conceptually integrated career development program. The model uses the notion of competencies to integrate a career development program into an organization, since the goals and objectives of any organization, in some way, are linked with human resources requirements. (CT)

This is the first in a series of reports describing the origin, development, and applications of the Naval Enlisted Professional Development Information System (NEPDIS). The NEPDIS was designed to be a fully computerized information assembly and analysis system that would eventually support manpower, personnel, and training management. This report…