This editorial advocates the establishment of a National Research Forum for information, advice and guidance (IAG) about learning and work. The editorial proposes that the existence of such a forum would potentially raise the level and calibre of guidance research, enabling new thinking and...

Presents a view of the field of career development as a chaotic subject. The concept of “chaos”, from chaos theory, is described and related to the study of career development. A phenomenological perspective, exploring people’s beliefs, is then adopted to explore the underlying “order”...