Learning is essential not only for students to develop the basic employabil
ity skills required for the school-to-work transition, but also for the dev
elopment of work habits, beliefs, interests, and values. Career development
counselors can apply a learning perspective to (a) use assessment instrume
nts for stimulating new learning, not merely for matching existing characte
ristics to current environments, (b) achieve emotional and performance outc
omes as well as cognitive outcomes, and (c) measure success by the extent t
o which clients continue to be engaged in learning activities leading to th
e creation of satisfying lives for themselves, not merely by measures of de
cisiveness and congruence.