This report, commissioned by Cambridge Ahead, examines the provision of career guidance in schools and colleges in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area. Findings are informed by analyses of primary data collected via an online survey of staff at 54 secondary schools and colleges in the region and interviews with 10 career guidance service…

Career and education decisions are amongst the most important young people make. Gender, ethnicity and socio-economic factors all strongly affect these choices. Career guidance is both an individual and a social good: it helps individuals to progress in their learning and work, but it also helps the effective functioning of the labour and learning…

This article proposes the use of a four-component multimodal employment project that offers students a 360-degree understanding of the rhetorical situations surrounding job searches. More specifically, we argue for the use of the four deliverables of written resumes and cover letters, mock oral onsite interview, video resume analysis, and peer…

This guide was developed to fill a need identified by high school educators and Alberta Advanced Education and Technology staff. The Guide introduces students to the principles of career and education planning and various authorized Alberta resources by helping students work through the planning process. The student guide is a series of modules or…

The purpose of this research was to test the effectiveness of a high school psychology course in promoting positive personal and vocational development. The findings suggest that the students in the psychology course showed more positive mental health and more vocational maturity than students in the control group. (Author)

A sequential career awareness model is described. The model attempts to increase the success identity of small groups of elementary school children, grades four to six. (Author)

Many educators consider the final year of high school to be a "vast wasteland," an epidemic of disengagement. Although high schools across the country have struggled with senioritis, responses to the problem have largely fallen into vertical acceleration, in which schools typically offer an array of AP courses or dual enrollment…

Reforms are needed in counseling and guidance to meet current demands and those inherent in a career education system. (MF)

The proposed system involves a creative set of career modules, which will provide counselors with a viable model that can be useful in organizing a more effective and more comprehensive career development program. (Author)

The American Vocational Association and the National Vocational Guidance Association established a joint commission in 1971 to prepare a position paper on the basic elements of career development and to examine its potential for all education from kindergarten to adulthood. The paper is a partial response to this need in that it describes the…

The Kimberly Guidance Program is an example of the type of program that can be implemented in a small rural school district. Teachers aid the counselor by introducing career development units in their classrooms. The main goal of the program is to develop a model of a guidance program to serve students in grades K-12 that is developmental in…

This article contains a progress report on two career guidance programs in elementary school settings. It also contains a brief discussion of a method which could be used as a way of implementing the theory of career education in the classroom. (JC)

The paper examines Public Law 94-482, Education Amendments of 1976, and United States House of Representatives Bill, H.R. 7, Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act of 1977, with reference to career guidance and counseling. Ways in which programs can be developed and implemented are discussed, along with the potential of new career guidance…

Promoting career education in the elementary school and tips on career guidance activities are the topics of articles presented here. (JC)