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Career Development Interventions
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Spence G. Niles and JoAnn E. Harris-Bowlsbey

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Chapter 12
Career Development
Interventions in High Schools

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Jennifer Del Corso

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Developmental Considerations for
High School Students
• As students transition from middle school to high
school, they focus more directly on the task of
identifying occupational preferences and clarifying
career/lifestyle choices.
• According to Super (1957), the essential tasks are
crystallizing, specifying educational preferences,
and implementing tentative career choices.

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Preparation for Career Transition:
After High School
• Over 70% of high school seniors expect to hold
professional jobs- “the silent dream”
• This trend toward “college for all” aspirations
emerged from a labor market that needed increased
skills, more accessible enrollment to college, and
community colleges instituted an open admissions
policy.
• Important to teach students about a variety of
rewarding careers that exist in a variety of fields
including those occupations that do not require a
college degree.
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Coping with Transition
• Adolescents must acquire workforce readiness to
cope successfully with their school-to-work
transition.
• Important to provide “transition enhancement”

assistance to secondary school students as they
progress toward further education, training, or
employment.

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Coping with Transition
(Continued)

• Secondary school students need emotional
support to lessen the anticipatory anxiety they
may experience as they consider the transitions
they will encounter.
• Transition skills build upon the self-awareness,
occupational awareness, and decision-making
skills students have developed throughout their
educational experience

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Helping Students Prepare for
Workforce Readiness
 All students can attend college, but low-achieving
students should be cautioned about the need to
take remedial courses once they enter college
 Even if high school students have college plans,
they must prepare for work
 College plans require substantial efforts and good
academic planning in high school

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Helping Students Prepare for
Workforce Readiness
(cont.)

 Many good jobs do not require a college degree
 High school students improve their chances for
obtaining good jobs by:
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having better academic achievement,
taking vocational courses,
getting job-placement assistance from teachers and
developing “soft skills” such as interpersonal
competence and good work habits

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Marcia’s Taxonomy of
Adolescent Identity
• Identity-diffused: person has not yet experienced an
identity crisis or exploration and has not made a
personal commitment to an occupation -- or a set of
goals, values, and beliefs.
• Foreclosed: person has not yet experienced an
identity crisis or exploration but has committed
prematurely to an occupation and a set of goals,
values, and beliefs.

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Marcia’s Taxonomy of
Adolescent Identity
• Moratorium: person is engaged in an active
struggle to clarify personally meaningful values,
goals, and beliefs.
• Identity-achieved: person has sorted through
the process of identity clarification and resolved
these issues in a personally meaningful way.

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Career Developmental Goals for
High School Students
• Develop more advanced self-knowledge
• Develop skills for engaging in educational and
occupational exploration
• Strengthen decision making skills
• Construct and implement a career plan
• Develop an awareness for postsecondary options

after graduation

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Career Development Interventions
in High School
• a) orient students’ comprehension of careers,
• b) develop students’ planning and exploration competencies,
• c) coach students to develop effective career management
techniques, and
• d) guide students in behavioral rehearsals to become prepared
for coping with job problems
• Savickas (1999) proposed career development interventions for
high school students that foster self-knowledge, educational
and occupational exploration, and career planning.

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Career Assessments in High School
• Career maturity/readiness: Career Maturity
Inventory (CMI); Career Adaptability Inventory
(CAI)
• Interest inventories: Self-Directed Search (SDS)
and Strong Interest Inventory

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Career Choice Readiness (Super,
1990)
Having a planful attitude,
Gather information,
Exploring the world of work,
Knowing how to make good career decisions,
and
 Being able to make realistic judgments about
potential occupations.
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Career Development Interventions
for At-Risk Students
• Educational systems in the U.S. poorly prepare minority students and
student with disabilities to enter and succeed in higher education
• Such disparities reflect serious deficiencies in the educational
systems in the U.S.
• McLaughlin, Sum, and Fogg (2006) report that exposure to work
experiences in high school is lined to both greater success in the
workforce and in postsecondary education
• More white teens-sometimes twice as many- held summer jobs in
2006 compared to nonwhite teens

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Career Development Intervention
for At-Risk Students
(Froeschle)

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Mentorship
Small Group Solution-Focused Counseling
Psychoeducational Career Lessons
Implementation of solution-focused skills within
the classroom

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