Reporting on typical career planning activities, the paper offers an overview of the approaches of four organizations: a public utility in southern California, the Adult Career Guidance Service in San Diego, the Systems Group of TRW, Incorporated, Redondo Beach, California, and the Naval Electronics Laboratory Center (NELC). Elaborating on the career planning approach at NELC, recommendations are offered for: creating a full-time career planning position; establishing a career planning-motivation program; approaches to achieving program objective; and a table proposing a schedule for a proposed NELC Career planning-motivation workshop. Appended materials include: (1) career counseling forms used by a southern California public utility, (2) the vocational questionnaire used by San Diego adult career guidance service, (3) the agenda of TRW, Incorporated Systems group for a career achievement workshop, (4) a partly annotated list of basic occupational data sources, and (5) questionnaires for the proposed NELC Career planning motivation workshop. (MW)