Mapping Career Interventions with Client Needs

By Shékina Rochat

Mapping relevant interventions with career clients’ most frequent difficulties can help provide tailored support. Practical tips are offered to create and use such a map in career practice, services, and training.

Life Design and Playful Approaches: A Way to Empower Individuals in an Unstable World

By Aude Poriau

In an unstable world, playful approaches and life design provide a dynamic, personalized and empowering solution to help individuals manage their career. This also leads career counselor educators to question their posture and the tools used to enable clients to find their own answers in a specific context.

A Review of “Designing and Implementing Career Interventions: A Handbook for Effective Practice”

Book Review by Mallory Becraft

This new publication offers practical strategies for anyone leading innovation and improvement efforts. Drs. Sampson and Lenz provide valuable insights, emphasizing collaboration and thoughtful planning. The handbook's adaptable chapters and eight-step model empower the implementation team to launch interventions effectively. Readers will find this a vital resource for enhancing career development worldwide.

Using YouScience in High School Group Career Counseling

By Jill S. Minor, Kimberly Farley-Smith and Huma Bashir

School counselors play an important role in the preparation of high school students for postsecondary educational experiences. To ensure that students are being provided with the best guidance, it is imperative that school counselors can employ evidence-based tools in group career counseling to meet the needs of the given population.

Career Development Strategies for Low-Income Students

By Ashlin Schoenfelder, Lori Strasburg, and Billie Streufert

Low-income students encounter common obstacles and are often an underserved population at institutions. Career services professionals can advance access to career opportunities by recognizing and responding to students’ needs. Holistic support, community partnerships, and clothing closets are common practices that career services professionals can consider. Other institutions may use the example described here to create their own clothing closet for students.

Helping Highly Sensitive Persons Navigate the Work Environment and Thrive

By Tiffany Greene

This article examines the significance of understanding highly sensitive persons (HSPs) in career exploration and development to help them thrive in the workplace. It addresses the traits of HSPs and their impact on work, providing insights for practitioners to effectively support this unique population’s career success. Strategies for accommodating and maximizing their potential to thrive in the workplace are discussed.

The Intersection of Wellness and Career Success

By Mary Ann Powell and Melanie Reinersman

Bringing experts together to discuss wellness and career success involves counselors, educators, advocates, global scholars and other professionals. It includes covering such topics as stigmas, transitions, self-care, occupational health, mental equilibrium, military culture and more. Offering all this and continuing education is the goal of the virtual celebration of National Career Development Month this November.

How to Turn Off Chat History in ChatGPT

ChatGPT history is more than a way of storing your conversations with the chatbot so that you can log in at any time and check past conversations. Your chat history is also used to train and improve the models behind ChatGPT. To disable chat history, log in to your ChatGPT account, click on the three dots next to your email address in the lower left corner at the bottom of the screen. Select Settings and then Show under Data Controls. Toggle off the Chat History & Training slider. That’s it! Conversations that begin with the chat history disabled won't be used to train and improve the ChatGPT model, nor will they appear in the history sidebar. Please note that this will not apply to any existing conversations that were had with chat history turned on. OpenAI may still use those conversations for model training.

Tech Tip submitted by Jaana Kettunen, jaana.h.kettunen@jyu.fi