The Career Options Program provides career services to adults throughout Missouri. Activities include a toll-free career hotline, career planning workshops, and dislocated worker workshops. (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…

Data from 115 college freshmen under age 20 show that career maturity is not significantly related to independence from parents. Intelligence was significantly and positively related to most career maturity and independence scales for women but not for men. Men were both less career mature and more independent from their mothers than women were.…

Clients of a university career center (n=102) used the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) Plus and completed Holland's My Vocational Situation and Vocational Preference Inventory. Persons with higher Social and Enterprising scores rated SIGI Plus lower as a tool to acquire self and occupational knowledge. (SK)

Discusses global economic, political, and social trends affecting the workplace, families, education, and gender roles. Depicts current career development programs and practices with children and young, midlife, and older adults. Presents current issues in schools, adult education, and business/industry for career development. (SK)

Economic change in Hungary is causing new types of unemployment. Career counseling and development are taking on new importance and new models, particularly in work with adults, are emerging. (SK)

The Career Guidance Center of the American University of Beirut was established to counteract the effects of limited knowledge of the world of work and lack of school counselors and career education. The decision-making model used is consistent with Lebanese cultural beliefs. (SK)

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro offers a three-course cluster: Career/Life Planning for undergraduates, taught by doctoral counseling students; career development for master's counseling students; and career counseling for doctoral students. Graduate students get practice in counseling and supervision while continuing their own…

Discusses Collins' model (black women as "outsiders within") as a career development strategy. Uses survey data from 34 academic researchers that show how those who use "outsider" career strategies are intrinsically motivated and may use their research as a form of affirmation. (JOW)

Two black women who were among the first of their cohort to break into the white male-dominated world of managerial science reflect on their academic careers. (JOW)

The author of "Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought" reflects on the challenges that currently affect the construct's usefulness: the changing meanings of the term "outsider within" and how the changing meanings work with current marketplace ideologies. (JOW)

Undergraduates (n=108) were assigned to six groups: computerized Career Decision-Making (CDM), computerized Self-Directed Search (SDS), CHOICES, CDM and SDS, wait-listed, or control. Teaching decision-making strategies through CDM improved short- and long-term vocational identity; the informational approach (CHOICES) had long-term impact. Despite…

Taiwanese college students (n=258) in career-education courses focused on interpersonal relationships or career planning were compared to 237 controls. Career education did not make significant changes in career beliefs but did affect career certainty and indecision. (SK)

A study of 226 faculty in mentoring relationships found that a larger proportion of women are mentored. There were no significant differences in psychosocial support from mentors in cross-cultural versus homogenous pairings. The impact of mentoring on organizational commitment was significantly greater for Caucasian men and women. (SK)

A study of the relationship between acculturation level and vocational identity among 112 Taiwanese students attending Midwestern universities found that students who were older and in the United States for a shorter period of time were more apt to identify themselves as Asian. They also had a higher level of vocational identity. (JOW)