A study was designed to test predictability of actual occupation from expressed vocational choice when combined separately with measures of career development. Subjects were 1,994 members of a national study of high school career development who were working more than half-time three years later (1976). Expressed vocational choice and measures of…

The current status of career counseling theory is explored. The emphasis is on counselee self-knowledge rather than counselor knowledge about and duration of the counselee. Noting that occupational information is abundant and that some methods of accumulating information about counselees' attitudes, values and interests are available, the authors…