In January 1908, Frank Parsons saw the first client at his vocational guidance clinic in Boston, Massachusetts, marking the beginning of what we know today – career guidance and education. To celebrate this significant milestone, we are planning four major events taking place throughout 2008.

Although the past 100 years have brought many new changes and advancements in career guidance and education, Parsons' three basic principles of vocational choice remain valid yet today:
  • A clear understanding of yourself, your interests, skills, aptitudes, ambitions, resources, limitations, and their causes

  • A knowledge of the requirements and conditions of success, advantages and disadvantages, compensation, opportunities, and prospects of different lines of work

  • True reasoning on the relation of these two groups of facts
While Frank Parsons was the first to advocate for career guidance and education, he was certainly not the last. Our celebration will also honor the many other world-renown leaders that have led the field and guided the work we do everyday for students and adults. Some of these leaders include:

Frank Parsons Hugo Munsterberg E.L. Thorndike
E.K. Strong David Campbell Frederic Kuder
Anne Roe Leona Tyler John Holland
Donald Super Mark Savickas JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey
Donald Zytowski Nancy Betz Steve Brown
Robert Lent Gail Hackett Linda Gottfredson
Nadya Fouad    
 

Several industry-leading organizations have partnered and assembed a Steering Committee for the celebration. The Committee includes:
  • Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) - Jan Bray, Executive Director
  • National Career Development Association (NCDA) - Darrell Luzzo, President
  • National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) - Kim Green, Executive Director
  • Society for Vocational Psychology - Section of the Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association - Paul Gore, Chair
  • Kuder, Inc. - Phil Harrington, President





     











































































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