This article reviews literature published in 1993 that is of interest and use to career counselors. Topical areas include definitions of career counseling, descriptions of and outcome research on career assessment and intervention methods, career counseling issues and techniques of particular relevance to women and members of various special groups, and counseling with persons making career transitions.This review presents a selection of the 1993 career literature that I judged to be of interest and use to career counselors. My goal was to provide the reader with what amounts to an organized tour through the year's literature. I attempted to build bridges between individual contributions and thereby reveal something of the larger picture of the practice-relevant literature. In some cases, the literature I reviewed directly related to practice and provided the reader with explicit recommendations; in others, the link was more indirect and provided information, but not recommendations. In the latter cases, I tried to illustrate how I perceived the information to be useful in informing practice.The organization of this review was driven by the literature I read. I had no preconceived structure in which to fit specific works, although my own cognitive processing idiosyncracies surely are reflected in the meaning I made of the year's literature. It made sense to me to first establish the nature of career counseling, then to examine what career counselors do and how well it works, to follow this with attention to client characteristics relevant to career counseling practice, and to finish with consideration of counseling issues and strategies for persons experiencing career transitions. All citations, unless otherwise noted, refer to 1993 literature.Linda Mezydlo Subich is a n associate professor of psychology i n the