This self-study curriculum guide is intended to assist counselors and teachers in learning to use labor market and career information with clients more effectively. The following topics are covered: understanding career development and the use of career and labor market information in career counseling (changing ideas about career development, the role of theory, classification of theories as structural or developmental, and career development theories and career counseling); understanding the labor market (the basic model of the labor market and modifications of the concepts of supply and demand); exploring labor market information sources and systems (major state and federal sources, career information delivery systems, and nongovernmental sources); exploring labor market information resources and products (including discussions of 17 major resources); using labor market information in career counseling (occupational questions and resources and career counseling case studies); and developing a professional plan of action (professional, information, and community development). Appendixes include additional labor market information resources, guidelines for preparing and evaluating career information literature, designated vocational/career competency areas, introductions to the military services and the American labor movement, networking resources for establishing lines of communication, a glossary, and lists of acronyms and additional resources. (MN)

The Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to; Acquiring and maintaining employment; Principles and practices of employment counseling; Case histories of employment clients; Interviewing; Preparing written material; and more.

Essential reading for careers leaders. Thispractical book, written by experts David Andrews and TristramHooley, is designed to meet the needs of all careers leaders inschools. Newly updated to reflect changes in policy and education, it is an invaluableresource for anyone involved in delivering careers work in schools or providingsupport and training for careers leaders.

Keeping up with new developments in vocational psychology is important to both psychological practitioners and researchers. This volume is devoted to presenting and evaluating important advances in the field of career decision making, development, and maturity. More specifically, it identifies, reports, and evaluates significant contemporary developments in vocational psychology and provides both professional workers and students with an informed understanding of the progress taking place in the field. The history and theory of the assessment of career development and decison making are explored as well as advances in career planning systems. An expanded context for the study and evaluation of career development variables is also described.