Exam 1: Historical Development and Some Basic Issues
The smallest proportion of factory workers in all developed nations describes:
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Who was considered the leading figure, or "father," of the career counseling movement?
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Define career and discuss Hall, Mirvas, and Feldman's perception of what the term career implies.
MAJOR POINTS
Career refers to the activities and positions involved in vocations, occupations, and jobs as well as to related activities associated with an individual's lifetime of work.
Hal and Mirvas suggest that career reflects a more current role of flexibility required of contemporary workers. The "protean career" that "encompasses any kind of flexible, idiosyncratic career course, with peaks and valleys, left turns, moves from one line of work to another, and so forth.
Feldman points out many poor and blue-collar workers may view their environments as very constrained, with limited potential for finding work. Counselors are to provide a more enlightened and encouraging perspective of self-development through learning new skills in trades and basic skills for advancement.
Define the term lifelong learning and explain how it is used as a counseling goal.
Integrating career and personal concerns is best described as:
Briefly discuss how working in the 21st century will be influenced by at least five factors.
The National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee had four basic functions. Identify one of them from the following:
Future stages of career counseling will be particularly impacted by events listed, with the exclusion of:
What does Zunker (2008) present as the next challenge in the role of career counseling?
Peter Drucker (2002) has given what term to the type of worker that will dominate the next society?
Stage 5 of career counseling (1980-1989) encompasses transitions brought about by what factors?
List and discuss the six stages that characterize career development history, along with the time period of the development.
What impact did World War II have on the career counseling movement?
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