A scoping review of peer-reviewed academic literature on career interest measures for the African adolescents was conducted. The aim was to determine current knowledge and future research. Measuring learners' career interests during high school is imperative to promote a positive start to their career trajectory. A sample of 10 articles…

Outlines the contextualist perspective upon career research, theory, and practice and explores the possibility of its adoption in the mainstream of the career field. Examines conceptualizations of the environment in mainstream career theories, underlying assumptions, the contextualist work hypothesis, and metaphors illustrating the contrast…

Discusses various components of adult cognitive development research, such as post-formal thinking and wisdom, with particular reference to the changing nature of careers. Offers 19 propositions concerning the thought processes characterizing effective management of career by individuals and discusses implications of the propositions for career…

Examines the effects that changes in work structure and conditions, such as diminished job security, have on individuals. Explores the importance and meaning of work from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing on ways in which predicted changes may create anxiety. Suggests that counselors in the workplace be aware of these issues. (RJM)

Offers some comments on the recent British Journal of Guidance and Counselling's symposium on the "new career." Suggests a variety of roads for coping with the increasing need for effective and efficient career interventions. (Author/MKA)

Examines the process by which careers officers develop personal models of guidance through the interaction of theoretical knowledge with their experiences of training and practice. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 11 careers officers. Responses were considered in relation to theories of careers choice, careers counseling and guidance,…

Careers guidance is undergoing rapid and radical changes. However, the Careers Service is still operating to nationally agreed core training objectives which determine both initial training and supervisor training. Outlines recent changes influencing guidance practice and training, and identifies the predominant mode of current supervision within…

Discusses development of equal opportunities for ethnic minorities through careers guidance. Describes the provision of careers guidance services in Holland and Britain in relation to a model of organizational development. Discusses emotional barriers of fear and anger in a structural context. Presents the concept of "career negotiation"…

Market principles can be applied to careers guidance services through the concept of guidance as a market maker or through the concept of a market in guidance. The notion of a market in guidance can take the form of a real market or of a quasi market. A quasi market can take the form of contracts or of vouchers. These options are explored.…

Changes in the nature of careers, and also of families, mean new challenges for the increasing number of dual-career couples in society. Each couple faces multiple concerns, including two individual careers, a shared relationship and the interdependence among all of these elements. This paper contributes to the counselling literature by reporting…