ABSTRACT

Career counseling has a long and illustrious past, dating back to Frank Parson’s (1909) three-step model of vocational guidance. In the past 90 to 100 years, more complex models of career counseling have evolved, and additional empirical information has shaped the process of career counseling. As the field approaches the 100-year anniversary of the publication of Parson’s seminal model, it might be an opportune time to reflect on the knowledge gained in the last 100 years in terms of which career counseling strategies, under what conditions, effectively help which clients.