New York Career Guidance Career guidance can be a critical
intervention for residents of large cities like New York where
the network of educational, training, and employing institutions
is too complex and differentiated to be readily understood.
Without informed help during the decision-making process, many
city dwellers find it difficult to plan courses of action that
will enable them to make the most of their career options. As
New Yorkers attempt to negotiate the interlocking educational,
training, and employment structures, the mediation of guidance
counselors may ease their progress into and through the labor
market and help them to surmount institutional barriers that
restrict their range of choice. Since career decisions are made
by both youths and adults, an effective guidance system must aim
to serve people of all ages. A person's career options are
affected not only by his personal attributes, but also, to a
significant degree, by the availability of family and community
resources which can be devo