Career narratives can help counselors understand clients' work experience and future plans. They include the landscape of action (actual events) and consciousness (perceptions). Clients' subjective understanding of their career story is a pivotal consideration. (SK)

Reviews approaches for career counseling that should be effective for clients now and into the future, suggests a holistic approach to career counseling, and offers recommendations for career counseling practice. Explains the use of Personal Career Theory as a client-centered approach. (Contains 16 references.) (JOW)

The authors examine collaboration between private industry and the college career center to produce graduates ready for work. They discuss how and why to develop such initiatives and present criteria for appropriate involvement. Sample programs are included. (CH)

College faculty have moved away from mentoring students as the pressures of teaching, research, and service have increased. Career counselors can develop partnerships with faculty, having them serve as career center advisory board members, material reviewers, and mentors. (SK)

Themes for evaluating career centers are as follows: (1) determine scope and relate it to institutional mission; (2) design services to reflect successful practices; (3) build on philosophical/psychological base; (4) match interventions to developmental needs; (5) use sophisticated diagnostics; (6) provide continual staff training; (7) attend to…