The study attempted to assess career development concerns of 381 military personnel enrolled in an off-campus baccalaureate degree program. Results suggest that workers exposed to specialized work and training environments, such as the military, may have career development concerns that are difficult to assess with traditional instruments. (CH)

The author outlines some of the current wisdom about meeting the career counseling needs of today's adults. She describes theoretical and technological tools that help adults and presents one effort to reconceptualize the way counselors assist adults with career transitions. (CH)

Twenty-four former executives contributed data as well as advice for those contemplating a move from university administrative to faculty positions. Conclusions emphasize the success of persons making this transition. (Author/MLW)

Research findings are presented as potentially important program issues, and descriptions of how these issues were transformed into modules for a career-shift/job-search program are given. Preliminary data from the evaluation of this career-shift/job-search program are shown and the resemblances between this experimental, research-based program…

To plan for our future we must consider both change and constancy, but most futurists today pay insufficient attention to constancy. As individuals plan their lives, they must assess their desire for change or constancy in geography, goals, special knowledge, people environments, working conditions, salary, and transferable skills. (IS)

The director of a technical writing program explains how he remolded his style from an academician to a technical communicator. (FL)

This article is the second in a series by the author describing how Janet looked for and found a job 3,000 miles away because she employed an effective job search strategy and developed an appropriate skills resume. (Author)

Presents the initial analytical results of 1973 survey data obtained from over 52,500 respondents in the physics and astronomy community. Indicates a decrease in unemployment and a continuous salary increase from 1970 to 1973. Included are descriptions of subfield employment, work activities, and situations of minority groups. (CC)

Occupational foundering is a phenomenon occuring when a person enters the labor market without commitment to an occupational goal. A period of effort causing varying degrees of need deprivation and frustration, floundering can be divided into three stages: (1) initial entry into the labor market (2) shopping period (3) mid-career stage. In the…

A sample of 89 subjects whose freshman major was engineering and whose junior year major consisted of a variety of nonengineering subjects represented subjects who had made an unrealistic vocational choice as freshmen. The junior year majors of these subjects were classified by Holland's theory of vocational choice and the relationship between the…

This brief article presents sources of information available about job possibilities in non-traditional areas of counseling or student personnel work. (JC)

Data gathered in personal interviews with a probability sample of 402 physicians are analyzed to identify factors associated with the decision to leave general primary contact practice for speciality practice. (Author)

Counselors who were surveyed to determine why they had changed jobs reported that they had changed occupations because of job interest and financial reasons, and that they had entered counseling because of a real interest in the field. The counselors' experiences led them to believe that other people change jobs primarily because of lack of…

Discusses the changing work ethic and the role of the public schools, the junior colleges, and the four-year colleges in educating adults for careers. (Author/SP)

The author points out a malaise among a significant portion of white male workers in America and suggests a need for programs that combine improved counseling and education efforts designed to improve the work lives and social environment of the contemporary generation of men and women. (Author)