This article, based on the keynote speech for a career day at Concord Academy, defines the concepts of a career and the career planning process, with emphasis on the personal aspects of work and the need for self-analysis in the selection of a career. (SJL)

Students are often so preoccupied with choosing a college and being admitted that they don't spend much time thinking about what they'll do once they get there. Here are five suggestions for college freshmen from the director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning at Harvard University on planning a college curriculum, especially…

Describes the five presuppositions regarding the nature of career choice and of student/teacher and student/counselor relationships which guide the off-campus learning program at Harvard College. Explains the eight-level vertical matrix model on which the program is based. (SB)