Looks at what is known about career decision making and what needs to be reconsidered in light of implications for career center practice. Particularly notes putting less emphasis on becoming decided, more on becoming one's own agent, and the importance of addressing client resistance to engaging in more than short-term interventions. (Contains 17…

By evolving to keep pace with the information technology field, Auburn Career Center ensures its students are prepared for today's workplace. This article profiles Auburn Career Center, the first career and technical center in the state of Ohio. The award-winning career center annually serves approximately 650 high school students within 11 school…

"High Schools That Work" is an effort-based school improvement initiative founded on the conviction that most students can master rigorous career/technical and academic studies if school leaders and teachers create an environment that motivates students to make the effort to succeed. HSTW is the nation's first large-scale effort to engage state,…

Graduate students provide valuable human resources to industry and academia. Little, however, is known about how higher education institutions approach career services and the career development of graduate students. This qualitative case study investigates how career services offices for graduate students have developed their career services and…

Career development works only if employees accept responsibility for their own careers. Conventional programs often leave employees passively waiting for the company's next move. It would be better to provide employees with resources and guidance, allowing them to find their own answers at their own pace in their own way. (JOW)

Discusses major aspects of one-stop career centers as a system and shows how people use the centers. Also lists contacts for more information about currently operating centers. (JOW)

Notes that university students know little about the realities of the workplace. Explains an assignment in which students interview a person currently working in a job that logically follows their major. Explains how to find the appropriate interviewee, and how to prepare, conduct, and report on the interview. Notes that end-of-class evaluations…

Describes one-stop career centers funded with Department of Labor grants in several states. The centers offer help for finding jobs and developing careers, involve several agencies, offer options for getting services, and provide a system for evaluation. (JOW)

The U.S. Secretary of Labor outlines goals of her department and discusses the One-Stop-Career Center program as a major component for reaching these goals. (JOW)

Career exploration is as important for adults as for younger students. Many adults are using reentry centers for assessment, information, counseling, and training to effect career changes. (SK)

Nine articles describe corporate career centers at Advanced Macro Devices, Sun Microsystems, Tellabs, DaimlerChrysler, Eli Lilly, Toronto Dominion Bank, Motorola, Honeywell, and Dow Corning. Other articles give an historical overview and address virtual career centers, talent management, and future directions. (SK)

A university career center's conference brought together community, university staff, administrators, faculty, and students to identify future directions for career development services and leverage resources to support a shared vision. Critical needs identified include strengthening of internal links, outreach to new audiences, experiential…

Community career services are provided by the University of Missouri for faculty/staff, students, alumni, and community members by graduate-level counselors-in-training. Future goals include expanding awareness of the services to more diverse populations and improving linkages to local employment information. (SK)

Although students may use campus career center programs and services, their career decision-making processes can be influenced by a variety of people and experiences, in and out of class, on and off campus. This study is an exploration, through the framework of a wisdom development model, of the myriad ways college students make their postcollege…

This annual report covers the background and recent accomplishments of the Adult Career Counseling Center (ACCC) at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. The following 12 topics are covered: (1) recent developments and history of the ACCC; (2) mission of the ACCC; (3) description of the ACCC; (4) the advising process; (5) ACCC coordination with…