predictable career paths created by the industrial revolution (Savickas & Walsh, 1996).

Vocational guidance practitioners understood typical career paths and recommended

those paths to clients whose skills and interests matched those paths (Savickas & Walsh,

1996; Severy, 2002). As this model relied less on interaction and more on scientific

assessment, vocational guidance practitioners were able to match large groups of people

in short periods of time, a highly desirable feature when large numbers of workers would

enter or re-enter the job market, such as after wars or during population and education

booms (Herr, 2001b; Savickas, 2000b; Severy, 2002).

 This century has brought yet another new paradigm shift in the world of work and

the concept of career. The stable and predictable career path provided by the industrial

economy does not exist as often in the rising information-based economy (Peavy, 1996;

Savickas, 1993). The promise of life-long employment within one organization no longer

exists as workers often advance within their own career by moving to a different

company or organization (Imel, 2001). Mark Savickas (200b) describes this phenomenon

as self-employed workers, moving from one client-company or customer to another. This

ever-changing career path has necessarily changed the way that career counselors assist

clients in career decision-making (Severy, 2002). The scientific matching models of the

last century become less valuable when both the person and place change constantly

(Hoskins, 1995).

 In addition to the change in the nature of work, the demands of an information

economy have also changed the relationship between the world of work and personal life

(Savickas, 1989b). The artificial split between the work-self and private-self brought

about by the industrial revolution has become arbitrary in the melding of work and home

(Manuele-Adkins, 1992; Savickas, 1991). As noted by Hansen, "New work patterns are