This paper reports on a project which is designed to increase the participation of high school students in accounting work experience placements. The focus of the paper is on an Australian-based project which overcomes the identified barriers to offering high school accounting work experience placements with a resultant increase in the number and…

A career counseling program integrated into an academic advising office is described. A major tool used is a Career Decision Kit designed to make the student more aware of career needs and relate them to the options available. Career counseling specialists work together with faculty academic advisors to counsel students for overall planning. (MSE)

At Wheaton College, juniors were matched with professional women who served as mentors or career advisors for the academic year. Most students received information about specific occupational fields or graduate schools and support from their mentors. Some benefited from personal information about the mentor's family, background, and life-style.…

Indiana University's new Career Center is trying to apply a systems approach in the development of new programs. It allows a method of identifying problems, unrelated elements and relationships, and ties these together into a progressive whole. (Author)

The Community-Based Guidance Program is an inexpensive and effective outreach project for home-oriented women. It is self-perpetuating and develops its own professional and user networks. As a link between women, it provides the confidence to make and implement midlife decisions. (Author)

The counselor's goal is to strike an acceptable balance between the needs of students and those of the armed forces. The approach outlined emphasizes the need for balanced information, counselor involvement, and well-organized and coordinated recruitment activities. (Author)

Presents a group technique for secondary and postsecondary students whereby participants are assigned careers and are encouraged to examine their cognitive and affective reactions. Students engage in self-directed career exploration, decision making, and planning. They become proactive agencts in their own career development. (Author)

Describes a card sort technique designed to stimulate career explorations and to assist in career decision making. Addresses several questions relating to evaluation of the technique, including its effectiveness as part of a career exploration course. Considers strengths and limitations of the technique. (RC)

This article reports the preliminary field test results of the Counselors Expanding Career Options Project (CECO), the goal of which was to develop and field test non-stereotyped career education materials for rural and non-urban high schools. The project was funded by the Women's Educational Equity Act. The field test design establishes four…

Several new efforts by campuses to initiate educational information services designed to assist prospective students with making choices about schools and programs are reviewed to illustrate the diverse form they might take. (AF)

Activities of the Project DISCOVER team during the ten-month period from September 1, 1975 through June 30, 1976 are summarized in this report. (DISCOVER is a computer-based career guidance system under development since September 1972.) The major section reviews progress in meeting each of the following four objectives during the funding period,…

The purpose of the project was to perfect a career decision-making model that could be used by an adult basic education teacher to help the disadvantaged adult upgrade himself educationally and make a realistic career decision based upon his and his family's personal value system; his goal decided upon, the model could be used to help him…

A project was conducted to develop, test, and implement a comprehensive program for Georgia school systems, grades K-14. The target population included regular students, students with special needs, out-of-school youth, and adults experiencing career problems. Project objectives were to develop a K-14 guidance model, develop a state/local…

This description of career education activities in Pima County, Arizona, was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this study.) This…