The authors provide guidelines for the development and implementation of role-play simulations used for employee selection and promotion. Exercises are presented to illustrate the development of practical content-valid procedures. Suggestions on developing relevant ideas, working with role players, facilitating raters, and minimizing candidate…

This guidebook is designed to aid former homemakers to assess their skills and realize the transferability of them to the present day job market. It gives practical tips for all aspects of getting and holding a job, including the following: sources of employment; resumes; employer contact; application forms; employment tests; job interviews;…

Perhaps two million or more people in the United States have experienced mental or emotional problems, have been treated and returned to the community, and want their lives to be as normal as possible. Unfortunately, these people often face insurmountable obstacles in finding a job, largely because of public and employer ignorance or prejudice…

This workshop presentation from the National Vocational Guidance Association Annual Convention consists of two parts--a discussion of strategies for women to use in entering the paid labor force and a process to identify marketable competencies one has acquired. First, strategies are addressed for handling these three components of the change from…