Career guidance in West Germany is provided by the Federal Employment Institute. These services are easily accessible to all persons in the country. Career guidance personnel perform a variety of functions to assist the handicapped, the unemployed, public school students, and those who desire to change careers. (KP)

The concept of career education is not at present generally accepted or put into practice except by a minority of British schools. Career guidance in private agencies is crisis-oriented; in industry it is still a dream. However, there is a growing interest in career guidance in higher education and industry. (KP)

Occupational guidance and information services in France have expanded from voluntary efforts of labor and employment agencies of the early 1900s to the highly structured "Information and Guidance Services," a government-directed organization providing occupational guidance and information to both school counselors and any community…

Because of Canada's provincial divisions, each province has developed its own methods of implementing career guidance. Currently, Canadian career guidance relies heavily on individual counseling. However, a gradual shift to group activities is occurring as Canadian counselors follow the lead of guidance programs in the United States and Great…

In Japan, strong emphasis on career planning and placement exists within both school and public agencies. Both services have concentrated their efforts in secondary educational programs. Career guidance is minimal in elementary education. Current trends show that both services are beginning to adopt a more developmental approach to career…

Until recently, vocational guidance was the responsibility of private agencies in the Netherlands. However, the Dutch government has begun to incorporate vocational guidance into secondary education. High schools now have guidance teachers working in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and private agencies to provide vocational guidance…

A Parent's Workshop on Vocational Choice was conducted to stimulate thought and dialogue about career choice between secondary school students and their parents. Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) was administered to students and their parents. Student responses were compared to their parents' predictions of their responses. A…

British Career Guidance depends heavily on the careers officer, a community-based counselor. Because of changing needs, recent efforts have sought to standardize the professional training of careers officers and to establish support agencies which will enable careers officers to provide career guidance, information and placement on a broader…

The major career guidance service offered by Belgium schools is orientation to general career fields. This aspect is augmented on a more specialized basis by community guidance agencies which utilize psychological, medical, educational and social data about the client in developmental career counseling. (KP)

After a brief history of vocational guidance in Luxembourg, the author explains the functions of vocational guidance offices which, directed by the National Labour Office, specialize in placement of apprentices after analysis of their educational, medical, and psychological characteristics. Little emphasis is currently placed on vocational…