Career Counseling
Career CounselingCareer Employment Trends and Issues
1Career Employment Trends and IssuesTrends in Career
Information
Career information delivery will change:
Use of the Internet will continue to proliferate.
Development of online sources such as Americas Job Bank.
Classification systems are improving which will make information
more accessible.
Adults will be targeted as consumers of career information.
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2Career Employment Trends and IssuesTrends in Career
Information
Career information delivery will change:
Accessible internet resources will continue to grow.
Career information will decline to be emphasized at the graduate
level.
Researchers will ignore research regarding our understanding of
how to select and use occupational information.
Career counselors and the public will increase use of online
resources.
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3Career Employment Trends and IssuesTrends in Finding
Employment
Job openings will be accessible online.
Job development experts will increasingly be needed to help
clients wade through the growing complexities of the world of
work.
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4Career Employment Trends and IssuesTrends in Career
Counseling
Career counseling will be recognized as a specialty utilizing
skill and expertise.
Career counselors will most likely need to be certified in the
future.
Career counseling will recognize there are different needs for
both women and men.
Multicultural career counseling will be a hot issue.
John Hollands theory will continue to be prominent in assessment
of interests but other theories such as the developmental theory of
circumscription and compromise will also rise to the fore.
More and more career counseling will be done on computers.
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5Career Employment Trends and IssuesTrends in Career Development
Programming
Research on career counseling and career development will
continue to be important.
Career counseling and career development will continue to be
guided by such research.
Career counseling and career guidance will still be important
but will be overshadowed by the school reform movement sweeping the
country.
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6Career Counseling Presentation ResourcesGysbers, N. C.,
Heppner, M. J. & Johnston, J. A. (2003). Career counseling:
Process, issues, and techniques, 2nd ed. Boston, MA.: Allyn &
Bacon.
Brown, D. (2003). Career information, career counseling, and
career development, 8th ed. Boston, MA.: Allyn & Bacon.
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