Selecting the right academic major significantly shapes an individual's future career path, making it a longstanding focus of research. The shift to online platforms, accelerated by the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, has transformed counseling and guidance systems. Consequently, developing robust online support systems has become…

This research presents the design of Career Counselling Information System (CCIS), a web-based career counselling information system. The research aims to reveal a design framework for a web-based career information system integrated with universities' labour market performance to support career guidance processes. This research is structured as a…

Career and education decisions are amongst the most important young people make. Gender, ethnicity and socio-economic factors all strongly affect these choices. Career guidance is both an individual and a social good: it helps individuals to progress in their learning and work, but it also helps the effective functioning of the labour and learning…

After a period of relative neglect in many countries, apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning are experiencing a revival. Their effectiveness in easing school-to-work transitions and serving the economy is increasingly recognised. However, engaging individuals, employers, social partners and education and training systems in such…

This study uses a mixed methods approach to examine a new type of curriculum configuration that supports students' transitions to college: career technical programs of study (POS). Interview and survey data were collected from a college and its feeder high schools in each of three well-established ("mature") sites in geographically…

In the fall of 1995, a national search for exemplary career guidance and counseling programs was conducted. Programs were compared from the standpoint of the following elements: career guidance and counseling program plan; collaboration, articulation, and communication; and institutional support, leadership, and program evaluation. The nine…

Career and life planning are central to education and provide a unifying focus for school guidance efforts. There is growing evidence that individuals who have goals and dreams often attain them, while those who set no objectives in life frequently fall short of their potential. This guidebook was prepared for schools and institutions to use to…

The Career Guidance Program at Hood River Valley High School in Hood River, Oregon, is an integral part of the total school plan. The overall purpose of the program is to aid students in establishing realistic goals by providing necessary guidance and activities to carry out a flexible and individualized total school plan. Success of the program…

This report documents the success of the High Priority Education Project in generating an unusual amount of creative activity in the Florida colleges of education in designing and implementing projects to improve vocational education and counseling. The program's five phases are discussed in terms of their intersecting objectives, their procedures…

This brief guide describes the Career Planning Support System (CPSS), a career guidance management system designed to be integrated into a high school's operations and also designed for district or state application. The guide covers the following aspects of CPSS: (1) the CPSS perspective and five skill categories (self-awareness, social…

This paper addresses the need for the modification of educational objectives and instructional methodology with a view toward responding to an uncertain future. Career guidance must find ways to assist individuals in the process of self-development and self-actualization. An effective career guidance program calls upon the school counselor to…

A two-day training program is described that may be used by individuals or in preservice or inservice experiences to teach participants the knowledge and skills required to design, develop, and evaluate competency-based career guidance programs in whatever their work setting may be. It is appropriate for all career guidance personnel, including…

The manual for business and office education in Washington is intended to assist all in-school personnel involved in cooperative occupational education (COE), and provides step-by-step guidelines for planning programs appropriate to each school's situation. COE combines classroom learning with on-the-job training to help each student prepare for…

Explains the rationale, development, and implementation of a subspeciality, career development specialist, in a counselor education program. (Author)

A method for using group counseling to enhance the learning and personal satisfaction of computer-assisted career guidance is discussed. The author states that this combination of the human and the technological element appears to have real power in assisting individuals to increase significantly their career maturity in a relatively short period…