A Theoretical Foundation for The Use of Occupational Information in Guidance.

In this article, career development is seen as a learning process. Cognitive career material must be learned. Cognitive career change can be motivational and can lead to vocational behavior change. The stages of the vocational learning sequence discussed here are vocational readiness, vocational goa...

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Published in:Personnel & Guidance Journal Vol. 46; no. 7; pp. 636 - 641
Main Author: O'Hara, Robert P.
Format: Article
Published: American Counseling Association Mar68
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Summary:In this article, career development is seen as a learning process. Cognitive career material must be learned. Cognitive career change can be motivational and can lead to vocational behavior change. The stages of the vocational learning sequence discussed here are vocational readiness, vocational goal-directedness, elements connected with the vocational learning problem, the need for structured framework in vocational learning, and tho need for vocational symbolization.