2009-10 Policy and Procedures Manual

This annually updated document is designed to direct and assist board members and chairpersons of committees to plan, implement, and evaluate the roles and functions of their respective assignments.

ACES/NCDA Position Paper

Preparing counselors for career development in the new millennium

Career Counseling Competencies

Minimum competencies for those professional career counselors at or above the Master's degree level of education.

Multi-Cultural Career Counseling Minimum Competencies

The purpose of the multicultural career counseling and development competencies is to ensure that all individuals practicing in, or training for practice in, the career counseling and development field are aware of the expectation that we, as professionals, will practice in ways that promote the career development and functioning of individuals of all backgrounds. 

Career Development Policy Statement

Includes definition of career development with basic considerations for grades K-6, 7-9, 10-12, and adults.

Career Software Description Form

Form used as a follow up to the Career Software Review Guidelines. (PDF 18KB)

Career Software Evaluation Criteria

Checklist used with the Career Software Review Guidelines. (PDF 41KB)

Career Software Review Guidelines

Guidelines for publishers and consumers of career software. (PDF 53KB)

Ethical Standards

Standards of practice including general, counseling relationship, measurement and evaluation, research, and publication, consulting, private practice, and procedures for processing ethical complaints

Gallup Technical Report

Developed by Gallup Organization; titled National Survey of Working America - 1999, includes a description of methodology, key findings, detailed findings with data for specific groups, technical appendix, survey instrument, and detailed tabulations by total sample and by sub-groups by gender, age, educational level, employment status, race, and occupational cluster.

Gallup White Paper

Review full text of the results of the Fourth NCDA/NOICC/Gallup Survey of Working America as a brief "white paper" or as full technical report.

Career Connecting in a Changing Context: A Summary of the Key Findings of the 1999 National Survey of Working America, includes survey background, summary of key findings and policy questions raised by the survey.

Guidelines for the Preparation and Evaluation of Career and Occupational Information Literature

Guidelines for publishers and consumers of career and occupational print literature. (PDF 60KB)

Guidelines for the Preparation and Evaluation of Video Career Media

Guidelines for publishers and consumers of video career media. Includes a reviewer checklist. (PDF 54KB)

Reviewer Rating Form

This checklist is for reviewing Career and Occupational Information Literature. (PDF 29KB)

Use of the Internet for Delivery of Career Counseling and Career Planning Services

Includes provider qualifications, access, content, appropriateness for client, additional client support, referral, use of assessment, ethics, and unacceptable counselor behavior