Discusses the model programs and research activities of NIE in career education: the Institute sees career education as being concerned with fundamental education-related processes by which people select, prepare for and are retrained for increasingly satisfying jobs and careers. (Author/JM)

Discusses four steps which need to be taken if career education is to deal effectively with the multiplicity of career choices that exist in our culture: clarifying the primary goals, enlarging the target population; identifying the means for achieving the primary goal, and enumerating the potential positive consequences. (JM)