The booklet provides some guidelines and suggestions around which career guidance programs may design their standards. It discusses and briefly outlines some recent legislation, publications, speeches, and committee actions which deal with the objectives and methods of career guidance. It lists 10 assumptions which should be considered when establishing indicators of quality on which a career guidance, counseling, and placement model could be developed and evaluated. Included is a checklist of questions about a career guidance program, organized around five specific elements: program planning and development, organization and administration, staffing, program operations, and evaluation. (Author/PR)