Careers on the Move: Supporting Professional Identity Through Global Relocation

By Elizabeth M. Thomas

As global mobility increases, career professionals face growing challenges supporting internationally mobile clients, or themselves. Using the author’s international relocation as a case study, this article examines professional identity and offers evidence-based strategies to reframe international career transitions as developmental opportunities grounded in adaptability, skills transfer, and identity flexibility.

Creatively Connecting Theory and Practice: Instruction and Application

By Barbara Parker-Bell and Debra Osborn

Counselors in training may benefit from exposure to creative methods for presenting career development concepts. Authors introduce the Design Your Career (DYC) Guide and website to highlight Cognitive Information Processing theory concepts and processes. The authors also provide recommendations for classroom strategies and use of the DYC guide within counseling settings.

When Intuition Sneaks into the Room: Should Career Development Professionals Trust Clients’ Intuition?

By Itamar Gati and Moshe Tatar

Intuitions are intangible – unseen, unheard, and untouchable – yet they often shape individuals’ decisions about colleges, majors, or jobs. When a client expresses an intuitive preference for one option over another, should the career development professional trust that intuition? We present evidence-based guidelines to help navigate this complex and often overlooked dilemma.

Centering Student Voice in Career Development: A Strategy for Educators to Enhance Equity and Engagement

By Becky Otárola

This article discusses the importance of collecting student feedback based on "street data"—the lived experiences of students. By formalizing leadership through student advisory councils and co-creating programs, educators move from service delivery to shared ownership. This approach ensures equity, fosters self-advocacy, and transforms students into the architects of their own journeys.

Supporting Neurodivergent Students’ College and Career Success

By Erin Barnes, Vickie Houser, Sarah Moenning, and Jack Fejfar

Neurodivergent college students can thrive in higher education and their careers with structured supports. One institution describes how they leveraged technology and graduate students to address common academic and career challenges.

Applying Community Cultural Wealth and Constructivism in the Face of Racial Hostility

By Frank Gorritz FitzSimons

Racially minoritized clients experience unique phenomenon that is important to acknowledge and explore throughout counseling, including tokenism, cultural mistrust, and exhaustion from psychological labor. This conceptual article explores the integration of community cultural wealth and constructionism into career counseling, as part of enhancing social justice responsiveness in the face of racially hostile work cultures.

Resilience, Dynamic Solutions and the Global Career Development Conference

By Mary Ann Powell and Melanie Reinersman

Career development professionals who are ready to learn, earn continuing education units, network, meet leaders in the association and the field, while gaining significant professional and personal resources for another year of service, will gather once again at the annual NCDA Global Career Development conference. First Timers, in particular, are encouraged to view this article to enhance their experience.

Don't Reinvent the Website Resource

A search of the web for career planning tools leads to dozens of Google pages. The one at the top of the list is NCDA’s Internet Sites for Career Planning. Linked under Resources on the www.NCDA.org website, the list of online resources has been vetted by the NCDA Technology Committee and is free, open to all and organized by categories, such as Self-Assessment, Job Search, and Industry- and Occupation-Specific Information. Practitioners are encouraged to introduce the webpage to clients, incorporate tools into their service plan, and link to the webpage rather than reinvent the wheel of web resources.

Tech Tip submitted by Melanie Reinersman, NCDA Website Director, mreinersman@ncda.org