Discusses steps involved in planning a successful career fair: getting started; set date first; find proper facilities; find the staffing; invite faculty; look at costs; establish a time line; inviting employers; preparing students; preparing employers; evaluating the program; innovations; and the day of the event. (ABL)

Describes a career center created for alumni of the University of Illinois, noting that 10,000 individuals used its services last year. Explains how the program reaches alumni, how it meets the increased demand for services, how alumni differ from undergraduates, and how the program reaches potential employers. Includes sidebars illustrating the…

Discusses resistance of helping professions to marketing. Defines human services marketing. Describes forces that are placing human services in an increasingly competitive position. Makes recommendations to enhance the image of career planning and placement services and increase their usage. Concludes that by adopting a marketeer orientation,…

Examines personality types, then goes beyond defining types to match type characteristics with similar aspects of jobs that could lead to "perfect" careers. Looks at differences between extroversion and introversion, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, and judging and perceiving, and gives career implications of these differences. (NB)

Examines whether career services professionals are keeping in touch with the attitudes of the new generation of college students and are filling their needs and desires. Explores what it is that these new clients want from career services and suggests a variety of bridging programs that will help students move from school to work. (NB)

Surveyed career services offices (n=42) to determine effects of current budget crisis and strategies used to make up for deficits in operating budget and to produce a profile of services and population served. Found offices were raising fees, refining focus and efficiency, soliciting outside support, using paraprofessionals more, and doing more…

Describes one career services professional's use of self-produced videos to move students into career exploration and to provide career counseling to a large number of students while dealing with a hectic work schedule and a limited budget. Describes a model program one year after its implementation and reflects on the effectiveness of the…

Notes difficulty for career services staff to pursue professional development activities with little extra time and no extra budget. Explains importance of cost-effective professional development programs from career development and placement center staff and describes strategies used at University of Cincinnati to provide such programs.…

In this first of a two-part series, college placement directors reveal how they would handle issues of conscience on the job by responding to hypothetical dilemmas. Issues examined include conflict between students, institutional interest, confidentiality, strength of conviction, and dishonorable conduct. (ABL)

Discusses opportunities for careers in health care field. Claims there are many good reasons for students to consider a health career including prestige, job security, and the chance to fulfill a personal desire to help other people. Concludes anyone considering a career in health could not have picked a better time to move into the field. (ABL)

Discusses using Gerald Egan's model for creative decision making as a career counseling tool. Explains why to use this model and how it was adapted to meet career counseling issues. Describes its successful use in three case studies with a college sophomore in search of a major, a new graduate in search of a first job, and a homemaker. (Author/ABL)

Introduces ways to prepare for careers in computers. Explores such on-the-job issues as processing data, computer storage and retrieval of information, word processing interactive teaching, control of industrial equipment, and computer graphics. Addresses the need for computer-related training and job prospects. (BHK)

Describes experiences of University of Tennessee as attempts were made to spread total quality management (TQM) concepts more effectively across the campus. Describes what TQM is, background and initiation of project, and results of project implementation. (NB)

Notes that departments are forced, because of limited resources, to make difficult decisions about how to allocate time, money, and effort among the various services administered. Claims strategic market planning can help a career services or human resources staff to determine a realistic match between the department's mission and strengths and…

Discusses ways for nurses to apply their skills and experience to nontraditional career options. Describes and defines fields utilizing talents unique to nursing. Provides reasons a career changing nurse would flourish in each field. (BHK)