The University of Missouri Career Center is responding to six trends shaping career centers: personal career theory, diverse customers, empowerment through technology, accountability, and new ideas about the meaning of career. Responses include new types of staff and different service delivery methods. (SK)

The University of California Santa Barbara Career Center library was reorganized using Holland's six career themes, each tied to a computer that begins at a web portal for that theme. Bookmarks provide access to relevant links. (SK)

A proactive resume can help individuals understand workplace demands and their fit with them. Development of proactive resumes focuses first on employability skills and then on skills and attributes of specific professions or careers. (SK)

The U.S. Secretary of Labor outlines goals of her department and discusses the One-Stop-Career Center program as a major component for reaching these goals. (JOW)

Nine articles describe corporate career centers at Advanced Macro Devices, Sun Microsystems, Tellabs, DaimlerChrysler, Eli Lilly, Toronto Dominion Bank, Motorola, Honeywell, and Dow Corning. Other articles give an historical overview and address virtual career centers, talent management, and future directions. (SK)

A university career center's conference brought together community, university staff, administrators, faculty, and students to identify future directions for career development services and leverage resources to support a shared vision. Critical needs identified include strengthening of internal links, outreach to new audiences, experiential…

Describes the mission of Florida State University's Career Center. Explains activities of its units: Curricular-Career Information Service, Career Experience Opportunities (cooperative education/internship), Career Placement Services, and the Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and Career Development. (SK)

Arizona State University's Career Center offers a program, TARGETS (Talented At Risk Girls: Encouragement and Training for Sophomores), which brings high school girls to campus for career day activities and work with counselors on career and life issues. (SK)

California community colleges (n=78) ranked concerns in six life transition areas: job/career, financial, age related, health related, family, and personal. Interviews with San Francisco area businesses identified transition issues of concern to employees and ways community colleges could help. Four themes emerged: flexibility in career-related…

Community colleges currently offer fragmented services that marginalize disadvantaged students. A comprehensive career-assistance center could provide integrated academic, career, and personal services. (SK)

Offers reviews of 40 new and classic books for career counselors and career centers. Includes reviews of books on the following topics: assessment, career management, distance learning, entrepreneurship, the spirit-work connection, job-search methods, lifelong career development, as well as guides and workbooks. (JOW)