An adequate supply of a high quality labor force is crucial for national economic and social well-being; consequently, nations worldwide have placed significant emphasis on university graduate employability. Nonetheless, in Taiwan, a mismatch between knowledge acquired in universities and competences required by the job market has dramatically…

This article examines the strategies and forms of expertise on language and communication mobilized to engineer commodifiable migrant workers. Drawing on an ethnographic account of counselling practices in a state-run Italian job guidance centre for newly arrived migrants, I examine the calculations, tactics, and forms of expertise on language and…

Although international research regarding advising is burgeoning, most of the research on the role of and advantages related to academic advising has been limited to U.S. colleges and universities. This ethnographic case study conducted at a Liberian university examined the organizational culture of advising from student, faculty, and staff…

This article reviews important trends in college counseling work over the past 30 years revealed through an annual survey of college counseling center directors. The article also focuses on questions raised in the survey that generated important professional discussions and on other contributions the survey has made to the counseling profession.…

College career centers provide a valuable resource to students faced with choosing a major, learning about different career fields, and securing internships and jobs. Career centers must provide an increasingly sophisticated array of one-on-one and virtual services in order to meet the needs of students and recruiters. Collaborations between the…

University and college counseling services have played a vital role in higher education for many years. In the last 40 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of campus counseling services and the multiplicity of functions that are performed. Guidelines for university and college counseling services were first developed in 1970 by…

This study examined help-seeking in career counseling by investigating factors that influence students' intention to consult a career counseling center. Nine hundred and eighteen participants were given the Attitudes toward Career Counseling Scale (ATCCS), an information brochure about the career counseling center; the Intention to Consult a…

Examines how career and personal counseling compare on both process and outcome measures. Participants included real clients who sought career and personal counseling at three college counseling centers. Findings indicate that except in the area of expectations about counseling, there were no significant differences between career counseling and…

Describes a procedure for analyzing personnel salary and management costs of a self-directed career decision-making program using actual client data. These data are then compared to hypothetical data for a comparable individual career- counseling program. Discusses policy and management issues related to self-directed and individual…

Reacts to Robert Reardon's article (this issue) on the cost analysis of a self-directed career decision-making program. Asserts that comparing career advising with individual career counseling is making an unnecessary distinction between two services that are complementary approaches, and states that if the costs are nearly the same, individual…

University counseling centers usually follow one of a variety of themes or "models," although not in pure form. Perhaps the oldest is the vocational counseling model, which concentrates on helping students find suitable careers. In the psychotherapy model, most student concerns are seen for their personal content. Another model, student affairs…

Three counseling treatments were compared in terms of differential effects as employed in a college counseling center with clientele seeking vocational counseling assistance. The differential costs of providing the treatments were examined. Low delivery cost and comparable effectiveness support the self-administrable treatment modes as additional…

Describes the creation of a counseling center at a junior college-from the planning board, through the realities of budgeting, to its final actualization. (HMV)