This document reports on the major activities carried out and the major findings produced by the Counseling for High Skills Project. Using a customer satisfaction approach, data were collected from 39,940 currently enrolled students in 2,145 programs in 361 postsecondary institutions in 14 states. The study examined what kinds of persons enroll in…

Student panel gives confused picture of counseling and guidance in Washington, D.C. schools. (Editor)

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…

Relevancy for any part of American education during the 1980s seems to require some relationship to educational reform. The purpose of this article is to defend the contention that the best hope for career guidance to be related to educational reform is to continue building and implementing links with the career education movement. (Author)

Five negative perceptions which counselors hold of vocational education, nine ideal perceptions which are entirely consistent with the goals and objectives of the guidance movement itself, and four concrete steps to be taken by vocational educators to create a positive image for vocational education are expressed in this article. (GR)

Discusses relationship or effects of high technology on rate of occupational change, availability of jobs, education required for jobs, and growth or decline in middle income class. Contends major challenge to career guidance is to help clients retain basic commitment to work as an important part of their personal values. (ABL)

Questions and answers concerning many aspects of career education are presented in this article. (RC)

This article specifies general activities in which counselors should engage. Each function is stated in the form of goals which should be attainable to some extent in any vocational education setting. It is hoped that both counselors and vocational educators will be in a better position to evaluate effectiveness of guidance in vocational technical…

Discusses the relationship between career guidance and career education, both similarities and differences, and then examines the counselor's role as a career education coordinator. Presented at APGA Convention, N.Y., N.Y., March 1975. (HMV)

The author seeks to broaden the definition of "work" and applies that definition to career education. Suggestions are made about ways career education can be applied in schools and how those applications should change the role of the counselor. Presented at All Ohio School Counselors Association, Columbus, September 1974. (EJT)

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…

The best way to get vocational teachers and guidance counselors together is to create a new breed-the guidance teacher. Dr. Hoyt also suggests four kinds of guidance technicians. (Editor)

Currently popular national reports calling for educational reform were reviewed and 29 were selected in which it seemed appropriate to assume that the topic of career guidance would be included. This resulted in an overload of reform proposals emphasizing the goal of education as preparation for work. In analysis of the 29 reports it was found…

Schools preparing counselors must recogniz e the need for various types of guidance personnel, including paraprofessionals and support persons with less academic preparation and more occupational experience than today's professional counselor. Guidance needs of more students than the gifted must be met, with concrete help and direction in solving…