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Career Learning Outcomes: Mapping Career Readiness
Being able to seek and find answers to career decisions may appear to be a simple description of readiness, but diving deep into the requirements reveals an integration of numerous concepts. Super (1980) described maturity and adaptability based on employing coping dimensions such as planfulness and exploration. Colozzi (2016) emphasized the need for the individual to possess “a willing readiness to reflect” (para. 8). Podany (2025) stressed that career learning outcomes (i.e
Oct 202 min read


Returning to Roots: Career Development Foundations
Most career development professionals studied the writings of Holland, Super, and other ground-breaking theorists at some point in their...
Jan 203 min read


High(est) School: College is Not For Everyone
Making educated choices should be the goal of every individual, regardless of the level of education they achieved. There is a baseline...
Sep 16, 20242 min read


Obstacles: Real and Perceived
Making a decision regarding one’s career involves much more than just black and white answers to questions. Facing both real and...
Jul 15, 20242 min read


Values and Population Served: The Tenth Anniversary of CDA Insights
The 10th anniversary of CDA Insights could generate a desire to look back, however, that topic was already covered in the December 2021...
Feb 20, 20233 min read


Minds at Work: The Role of Social-Emotional Skills in the World of Work
Can all skills be taught? Who is the better teacher of soft skills: parents, schools, employers, friends? Which jobs require the most...
Oct 17, 20223 min read


Weighty Decisions: Multiple Factors and Choices
One client shares a worry over when to get a degree while family responsibilities and health care are significant time-drains. Another...
Jun 20, 20223 min read


Learning for Life: School's Not Out
While the real estate field focuses on location, location, location, the rest of the world professes education, education, education....
May 16, 20222 min read


School’s NOT Out: Be a Lifelong Learner!
Geography. It is my weak subject. (You remember those blue pie pieces on the Trivial Pursuit board – well, I was usually missing those!)...
Apr 15, 20192 min read
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