Career development is an important aspect of every young person's life as it helps them identify their skills, interests and goals and find the right career path for themselves. Career skills are a broad range of competencies and abilities that are necessary for success in the workplace. Developing them through education, training and experience…

The present paper is based on the concept of life-long guidance with focus on the labor market, employability, professional orientation and career development. In career development, an important role is played by career counseling provided by employers, namely in the classification of career guidance services provided in the private sector. The…

During this keynote presentation, I will describe the effects of globalisation and consider these, in turn, in the context of implications for career development services and practitioners. It will also include a look ahead to the changing needs of workers and the workplace in the 21st century as a result of "going global". The…

These remarks by the Director, Office of Career Education (OE) suggest the need for career education to operate as a concept, career guidance to operate as a service, and vocational education to operate as a program. This paper defines these three areas and elaborates on how counselors can make them best function, in a complementary way, for the…

This paper examines the use of a circumplex model of family interaction patterns for explaining variance in work and family role salience and vocational identity in a sample of 173 college students (107 women, 65 men). Results indicate a significant link between perceived emotional closeness and structural flexibility in the family-of-origin and…

Career education, viewed as a comprehensive educational program focusing on skill development in vocational, leisure, and personal tasks, should begin with handicapped students at the elementary level. Elements of such a program include awareness of self, career, economics, decision making skills, and employability skills. Career education should…

The author discusses problems of career choice and career development for all students and for gifted and talented students in particular. He reports on a followup study of 20 gifted students. Reasons for unsatisfactory career choices include false images of the job and hidden factors associated with the job. Gifted employees face numerous…

Concerns over career counseling continue to be heard on college campuses. Some of these concerns are articulated in this paper in an effort to promote more cost-effective services. The report opens with a discussion of student attrition and reviews the national literature, outlining such reasons for attrition as a lack of clear vocational goals.…

The Career Development Responsibility scale was designed to measure the extent to which students feel that reinforcement in terms of success in preparation-acquisition performance situations in a career are considered to be contingent on the student's own behavior. The 30-item instrument was written so that two items represent each cell of a 3x5…

This document examines selected data from the 1987 Gallup Career Development Survey in which 735 employed workers 18 years old and older responded to the 20 survey questions. The data examined how much help was needed in career choices and who provided such help, how much help was needed in career information and who provided such help, how much…

Career development programs can benefit from knowledge of the needs and characteristics of their participants. To investigate whether certain types of individuals seek career development assistance more often than others, 279 self-selected white collar employees of a large, federal biomedical research company completed the Myers Briggs Type…

Vocational Exploration is a small group counseling approach for career development, used for helping young people and adults to make more effective career decisions by combining group dynamics and career development theory and procedures. The process consists of five phases, where five participants and a counselor progress through 18 sequenced…

Over the past 15 years, post-secondary institutions have experienced a significant increase in the enrollment of students with disabilities. This study examined the career decision-making attitudes of 21 college students with disabilities and the impact of their disability on academic and career choices. Nineteen undergraduates and two graduate…

The workplace is changing, and both education for employment in the workplace and a subset of the educational system that is directed towards meeting the career development needs of students and adult workers will also change. The basic four-part model of career guidance will continue to be useful. The tools and techniques that are used in each…

Career education is based on the idea that all educational experiences, curriculum instruction, and counseling should be geared to preparing each individual for a life of economic independence, personal fulfillment, and an appreciation for the dignity of work. Properly adapted, career education can increase the opportunities available for the…