The computerization of career services: Critical issues to consider

Increasingly, career centers on university and college campuses are making use of the World Wide Web to help their users with a myriad of career relat ed needs. This technological service delivery mode has many advantages that will be briefly reviewed in this article. As well, a computer emphasis has the potential for drastically changing career centers as we know them: the ir traffic patter ns, staffing needs, resource procurement, and perhaps mos t importantly, their outcomes in the lives of the students who make use of them. This article discusses these changes and through a review of seven cr itical issues, challenges the reader to closely examine the implications fo r technology within their own career centers.