First published in 1984, Careers Counselling in Practice is intended as a practical guide and a review of developments in careers work. It surveys careers counselling and guidance practice in schools, colleges and universities as well as work done outside the educational field by vocational guidance agencies. The book draws freely on examples of guidance practice and in particular makes mention of trends in American careers education and guidance. In reviewing transition agencies and services, it argues firmly for an educational rationale for careers work and counselling rather than a guidance model based on state employment agencies. This is an important reference work for career counsellors, educationists and policy makers.

Adam S. Green is Lecturer in Sustainability in the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York (UK). He holds a PhD in anthropology from New York University (USA) and has more than a decade of experience leading collaborative fieldwork in India with Deccan College Post-graduate Institute for Archaeology and Banaras Hindu University.

Toby C. Wilkinson is Senior Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK). He holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Sheffield (UK), previously worked at the British Institute at Ankara and Istanbul University (Turkey) and at the Catalan Institute for Classical Archaeology, Tarragona (Spain). He has over 15 years of fieldwork experience in Turkey.

Darryl Wilkinson is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College (USA). He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University (USA) and has over a decade of experience directing archaeological research in Peru and New Mexico.

Nancy Highcock is a Curator for Mesopotamia in the Department for Middle East at the British Museum. She holds a PhD in Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies from New York University (USA), worked in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA) and has over a decade of fieldwork experience in Turkey.

Thomas P. Leppard holds a PhD in archaeology from Brown University (USA) and has directed archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Pacific. He co-edited Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity in 2018 and Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History in 2023, and his research has been published in Science Advances, Current Anthropology, Environmental Conservation and Antiquity, amongst others.