More attention should be paid to the building of career guidance and career curriculum programs with exit points that enable the student to seek employment at any time in an entry level position and/or to continue his education. Some of the best "career ladder" programs are the federally sponsored New Career programs. A number of the…

Forty-seven (51.1 percent) of the 92 graduates of the Dental Hygiene program completed a questionnaire designed to provide feed-back information concerning activities of program graduates. Results indicated that: (1) Practically all graduates were employed as Dental Hygienists, with most sharing their time among two or more offices; (2) Daily…

In 1976, the Shasta County Schools management staff devised a system to identify the factors of responsibility in management positions and to assign position titles and salaries on this basis. Factors were identified in the areas of program management, budget, and personnel supervision and weighted to rank staff positions. (SJL)

A 2-year study of the health care industry in the San Francisco Bay Area identified avenues for reducing health care labor shortages. Focus was on classifications where demand was expected to grow and where current demand exceeds supply: nursing, medical imaging, medical therapy, and medical records management. A modified job analysis technique…

As a part of a project that was to develop a system for defining vocational education curriculum and services necessary to train students for new and emerging manpower needs and job opportuntites, this report describes seven new and emerging occupations. The occupations included represent those which have met the project criteria for "new and…

This handbook is designed to help vocational educators identify changes in the labor market and to incorporate these changes quickly and effectively into their curricula. It guides teachers and administrators through the major steps in developing competency-based curricula for new and emerging occupations--i.e., (1) to identify new and emerging…