CAREER PLANNING RESOURCES

 

ORGANIZATIONS

Career Planner.com

One of the first online career-testing sites. Also has many links, job descriptions and other useful information.

Career Planning - from about.com

Comprehensive listing of all kinds of information relating to career planning such as an online quiz, related articles and links.

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

 

Local high school/secondary school guidance counselors (for enrolled students)

 

College/university career guidance services (for enrolled students)

 

Look in the YellowPages for local career service firms. Often, they involve a fee, but pay off.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Bloomfield, W.M. (1989). Career beginnings: Helping disadvantaged youth achieve their potential. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

 

Bridges, J.S. (1989, February). Sex differences in occupational values. Sex Roles, 20(3/4), 30.

 

Charner, I. (1988, Fall). Employability credentials: A key to successful youth transition to work. Journal of Career Development, 15(1), 30.

 

Drier, H.N. & Ciccone, J.K. (1988, Fall). Career guidance: The missing link in educational excellence and work transition. Journal of Career Development, 15(l), 3.

 

Eigen, C.A. et al. (1987, February). Relations between family interaction patterns and career indecision. Psychological Reports, 60, 90.

 

Miller, M.J. & McDougle, K.O. (1986, October). Factors high school students important in making career plans. Psychological Reports, Special issue (part one), 598.

 

Mitchell, C.E. (1988, Summer). Preparing for vocational choice. Adolescence, 23(90), 331-334.

 

Reardon, R. & Mundy, J. (1984, December). Career education and leisure education: Toward a k-12 life/development synthesis. Journal of Career Development, 11(2), 110.

 

Rosenthal, N.H. & Pilot, M. (1988, Fall). Informational needs for initial and ongoing work transition. Journal of Career Development, 15 (l), 20.

 

Slayton-Mitchell, J. (1990). The college board guide to jobs and career planning. New York: College Board Publications.

 

Stewart, J. (1985, March). Vocational indecision: How do we understand and deal with it? The School Guidance Worker, 40(4), 35.

MEDIA MATERIALS AND TEACHING AIDS

 

Flavian, D.J. Careers: how to get a job [Video]. Business Week. New York City: McGraw-Hill Productions.

 

Harrington, T.F. & O’Shea, A.J. (1982). Career decision making system [Survey]. Circle Pines, MI: American Guidance Service - The career abilities and interests survey and corresponding profile give students an accurate indication of what career interests he or she may have and should pursue. (Dr. Harrington is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at Northeastern University, and Dr. O’Shea is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.)

 

Radler, B. Successful interviewing [Video]. Business Week. New York City: McGraw-Hill Productions.