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Title: Employment Day: Forty Years of Transitioning High School Seniors Into the Workforce.
Author : Career Development Quarterly
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 257 KB

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School counselors and career counselors have always viewed the transition of high school students into the workforce as a responsibility of high importance (American School Counselor Association [ASCA], 2003; Campbell & Dahir, 1997; Gibson & Mitchell, 2006; Myrick, 2003; Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2005; Thompson, 2002). The teenager is on the verge of entering the adult world of work, and current decision making has an important impact on future career directions (Andersen & Vandehey, 2006). One third of the framework contained in the National Standards for School Counseling Programs of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA, 2000) consists of career development. State-level comprehensive developmental counseling program models should contain significant emphasis on the preparation of high school students for post-high school decision making. (Gysbers & Henderson, 2002). The New York State Comprehensive Model (New York State School Counselor Association, 2004), for example, follows the ASCA (2003) National Model closely and also folds into New York State's learning standards, especially the career development and occupational studies standards. Embedded in this focus on career development is the structure to accommodate both "college-bound" and "work-bound" (Herr, 1995, p. 25) students. Anecdotally, school counselors have long since been accused of spending disproportionate amounts of time on the former students, to the detriment of the latter. Ideally, school counselors provide extensive career information opportunities for all students to learn what they need to know as they transition from high school. As Powell and Luzzo (1998) have noted, "counselors might want to consider the integration of career exploration and planning activities into courses required of all students for graduation" (p. 156). In a more strongly worded admonition, Mau, Hitchcock, and Calvert (1998) asserted, "Students who choose vocational tracks over college preparatory tracks should be assured that they are not inferior to college-bound students, and counselors should devote equivalent time and resources to college-bound and work-bound students" (p. 164).