Maria Dora Bjornsdottir is director of the University of Iceland Student Counselling and Career Centre (UISCCC). She has MA in career and guidance counseling and BA in psychology and was career and guidance counselor at the UI from 1999 to 2011. That experience influenced her choice of topic for the PhD research. In her study, she is assessing the short and long term effects of two career interventions on students finishing upper secondary school in Iceland. This is an important transition for young adults in Iceland as in other countries but the University drop-out rate is unusually high, indicating that they may need more preparation for their career decision making. Two types of interventions, an indigenous one and imported, were applied to a group of last year’s upper secondary students.  Main results indicate that the imported intervention increased students’ self-efficacy to carry out career decision related activities and increased their general life satisfaction. Other research interests are assessment instruments for use in career services, their translation and adaptation between countries. In the past, she has done some part time teaching in the master’s program of career and guidance counseling at the UI.