Vocational Exploration Groups (VEG) is a program for aiding both youth and adults in to increasing clarification of their position in the occupational world. It is designed to lead an individual to personally supportive first choice of an occupation or to a reconsideration and a rechoice. The process consists of 27 steps within 5 phases of (1)…

The author examines the research about why priests and ministers leave the ministry and then discusses implications for future research. (HMV)

Examines the current conception of voluntary career change by focusing on managers and professionals who switched careers during their middle years. This group is of interest because they have defined career paths, and have been more likely to remain in established careers through their working lives. (Author)

Explained are ways in which certain concepts of leisure education have been used in mid-career change workshops and means by which leisure education in the schools can contribute to career development. (GW)

This paper considers one system of careers, Wisconsin school superintendents from 1940 through 1972, and examines the extent to which statistical characteristics of that system are consistent with a simple Markov model that assumes both individuals and jobs to be indistinguishable and careers at that level to be essentially random. (Author)

Examined managers (N=166) who voluntarily left the employ of an organization to determine reason for job change. Most job changers did not alter their general occupational orientations, but moved to occupational environments more congruent with their developing personality traits and goals. Suggests within an occupation there are diverse people…

Analysis of data from the New Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey yields evidence that young unemployed job seekers chose higher levels of search effort (used more job search methods and spent more time) and lower reservation wages than did comparable employed job seekers in 1981. (Author/CH)

Describes new intervention strategies used to address the career problems of adult clients who generally have less freedom than younger clients and who have a need for quick solutions. (CH)

Millions of United States' workers are unemployed, many of them dislocated from their jobs and careers by extended layoffs, drastic manpower reductions, and plant closings. Describes a model of the emotional roller coaster ride taken by employees displaced by a plant closing and suggests approaches to helping them and their families. (Author/ABB)

Investigated the development of general attitudes toward work in career transitions of Israeli junior and senior high school students, university students, and vocational and executive trainees. The results confirmed the role of expectations in attitude formation. Similar expectations as to status and advancement led to similar attitudes. (JAC)

A study of 98 medical students' career choice and career change decisions, and the point in the medical curriculum at which they were made, is reported. Negative factors concerning the initial career choice accounted for 84 percent of the changes, and positive aspects of the new choice caused 16 percent. (MSE)

During the 1975-76 academic year an inordinately large number of presidents resigned their positions, in most cases following a crisis with the governing boards as well as trouble with faculty and budgets. Changes in the office are advocated to reduce the potential for executive turnover. (Editor/LBH)

The work-related and personal factors associated with the willingness and ability of older adults to remain as child care workers and the factors associated with leaving child care work were studied in a time-series design. Subjects were 534 persons aged 50 years and older who were working for pay as child care providers. Of these, 341 replied to…

In the U.S. work force, job mobility has become the standard employment pattern. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10% of the work force switches jobs every year. Among the factors contributing to the career mobility of today's workers are the following: search for competitive employment positions; pursuit of a good career match; desire…

This study examined the occupational stability of bachelor's degree recipients during the first 4 years after receiving the degree, analyzing whether those who were teaching in 1994 were more or less likely than those in other occupations to leave the work force for work in different occupations in 1997. Data came from the Baccalaureate and Beyond…