This study surveyed 925 Australian high school students enrolled in grades 8 through 12 on measures of occupational aspirations, occupational expectations, career status aspirations, and career status expectations; it tested the association between these variables and career maturity, career indecision, career decision-making self-efficacy, and…

Personnel managers in 57 businesses rated appropriateness of 17 fragrances for job interviews. Intensity/amount of fragrance used was the most frequently mentioned influence on hiring decisions. Other olfactory factors contributing to professional appearance were identified. (SK)

Review of theory and research on counselor/therapist development identified seven stressors of novice practitioners, catalyzed by the ambiguity of professional work. Sources of stress include acute performance anxiety, scrutiny of professional gatekeepers, porous or rigid emotional boundaries, fragile and incomplete practitioner identity,…

Interviews with 14 human resource development practitioners who worked in German companies and 15 Germans working in U.S. divisions of German companies revealed that German curricula are more narrowly focused, U.S. managers receive more management training, and career and organizational development have no clear role in German companies. (SK)

In the past, educational counseling in Latin America has been used to limit economic and political participation and maintain unequal resource distribution. Modernization, the new free trade agreement, and other changes are changing the role of counseling. (SK)

Responses from 173 new staff and 756 promoted staff among 1,998 exempt employees, and from 993 of 3,858 nonexempt employees indicated that nonexempts with high aspirations were more committed to the organization/job and had higher career goals than new staff in supervisory positions. Results suggest that hourly workers eager for career development…

Responses to a survey of university career center professionals (1,000 of 1,171) showed that orientation has shifted from placement to planning/networking; self-help/self-direction were emphasized; 91% are serving a broader clientele than students; career centers have multifaceted, complex missions that need to be understood by administrators; and…

Responses from 209 of 520 Nigerian women in science and technology professions and university departments found they typically attended single-sex schools, had highly educated parents, had more fathers than mothers in scientific-technical professions, received parental and spousal support, and were concerned about combining marriage and career.…

In study 1, 313 supervisor/supervisee pairs rated supervisees' professional expertise; supervisees gave themselves higher ratings. Study 2 compared 63 team leaders' and 593 team members' ratings of leaders, finding different perceptions of competence. Results suggest the use of self-other ratings can be improved through feedback, joint training…