The preparation of a position guide--a detailed list of the responsibilities that are part of a particular job--eases the difficulties inherent in administrator turnover. (Author/IRT)

Looks at the process of switching jobs and changing careers. Discusses when to consider options and make the move as well as the need to be flexible and open minded. Provides a test for determining the chances of promotion and when to move on. (JOW)

Describes the career change of an NBC news producer, an engineer, and executive director, and a lawyer, who left their high-powered, high-paying jobs to become educators, teaching computer science, mathematics, and fourth grade. All agree that their previous career experience will benefit their teaching careers. (JOW)

Literature was reviewed on constraints on leisure time choices and on serious leisure (continuous engagement in an activity, which becomes a leisure "career"). Insights include the following: (1) constraints are not necessarily insurmountable but may be negotiated; (2) responses to constraints are not necessarily passive; and (3)…

This article highlights the experiences of three college admission counselors as they went through the process of career change. Transferable skills are discussed, as well as what each author misses and does not miss about admissions work. (GCP)

Distinguishes between unchosen transitions (children maturing and leaving, parents aging, companies downsizing) and chosen ones (moving, divorce, marriage, career changes). Describes the steps one goes through: uneasiness, renewed energy, complaining, exploration, partial transition, and the completed transition. (JOW)

Reviews concepts of career indecision and career decidedness. Specifies four subtypes: developmental indecision, chronic indecision, hypervigilant decidedness, and vigilant decidedness. Highlights when career goal setting is beneficial and when it can be useless or harmful. (SK)

A model program for counseling professional football players on career transitions takes an early intervention approach in four stages: (1) comprehensive vocational assessment; (2) identification and evaluation of education and training programs; (3) off-season internships; and (4) preretirement review of skills and drafting of a game plan for…

Navy officers (n=742) rated the magnitude and desirability of 16 career events. Cluster analysis supported Louis' typology and his assertion that different career events have similar meanings to individuals. Findings suggest that effects of exit transitions (retirement, resignation) are qualitatively different from those of other events. (SK)

Looks at the benefits and the losses to consider when thinking about making the transition from writer to manager. (SR)

Presents three-stage sequence based on increased awareness of assumptions, knowledge of relevant information, and skill in taking appropriate action as model for outplacement counseling. Rationale, structure, assumptions, principles, and evaluation of outplacement counseling program using this model are discussed. (Author)

The process of "callings" continues throughout life. Coaching can connect the present to the future in a meaningful way. Callings represent a value shift requiring revision of the nature and scope of one's central purpose in life and meaningful activities. (JOW)

A theoretical framework for the relationship between preparedness for occupational change, occupational self-efficacy, and leadership is presented. Preparedness for occupational change is defined as the wish to acquire higher task demands (i.e. greater complexity) in the sense that employees have thought about change but have not yet acted to seek…

The "Learning Together" longitudinal study focuses on four counties' efforts to expand bachelor's degree opportunities in early care and education (ECE) for adults currently working in the field. The "student cohort model"--in which small groups of ECE students with similar interests and characteristics pursue a bachelor's…

The decision to leave a successful career and great earning potential to start over as a novice with new surroundings and expectations is not made without consideration of a wide array of variables. Making the transition to higher education was not an easy one and the transition itself has presented various other challenges and joys that I have…