Editors' Introduction to the Joint Special Issue on Collaboration, Partnership, Policy, and Practice in Career Development

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The June issues of the Journal of Employment Counseling and The Career Development Quarterly are unique. They are a joint special issue focusing on opportunities for increased partnerships and collaboration among professional career development associations, countries, policy makers, and practitioners. In developing the proposal for this joint special issue, we were particularly interested in receiving manuscripts in which authors identified ways in which partnerships and collaborative efforts meet the career development needs of diverse populations.

The idea for this joint special issue evolved naturally from a series of discussions between us over a 2-year period. Not …