This guide, designed to assist pupil personnel specialists in developing placement programs, presents a comprehensive model covering the idealistic and realistic aspects of a placement program. Forms, procedures, and suggestions are included which emphasize an adaptable, open-ended approach to placement. The section on theoretical aspects provides…

Career planning is a developmental process. All populations can benefit from the career planning process of self-assessment, exploring career opportunities in the world of work, and learning assertive job-search strategies that produce results. This guide includes career-planning activities for employment counselors, case workers, and social…

This guide is designed to provide women job seekers with tools to help them obtain the job and salary they want and deserve. It begins with information about the labor market in general. These sources of information about jobs are described: networking; private employers; one-stop career centers; America's Job Bank; federal, state, and local…

This book provides a blueprint to help both practicing and aspiring administrators conduct a successful job search. Eight chapters present specific strategies for the following: preparing a winning profile; locating and selecting potential positions; writing an effective job application; getting the job interview; negotiating the employment…

This book is intended for individuals seeking first-time employment as full-time faculty in colleges or universities. Individual chapters address the following topics (sample subtopics appear in parentheses): (1) what colleges and universities look for in new faculty (the chances of becoming a professor and the ways in which colleges and…

Helping new career aspirants to develop the skills and strategies necessary to launch their careers is the purpose of this resource compendium. Skills for the workplace, job search skills, self-assessment, and planning are covered, as well as information about careers and occupations. This "agency version" is intended for use by career…

This facilitator's manual, together with the SkillScan deck of cards for career counseling, uses proven concepts, techniques, and exercises to help counselors and trainers help clients do the following: (1) develop career options based on skills; (2) evaluate career change opportunities to optimize their skills and interests; and (3) prepare…

This guide, intended for use by employment counselors, describes in detail 15 counseling tools including: the Moving On series; the Canadian Occupational Interest Inventory; Index to Canadian Occupations; Your Personal Occupation Selector; CHOICES; Careers Canada; Careers Provinces; Canadian Classification and Dictionary of Occupations;…

The guide, developed by the Secondary Transition and Employment Project (STEP) in Idaho, is intended to provide students with moderate handicaps with systematic individual assessment of vocational preferences and instruction in work-related skills. The curriculum stresses parent involvement, vocational training beginning at the 7th or 8th grade…

The manual, developed by the Realistic Transition Project in Washington State, reviews program experiences and recommended best practices for serving mildly handicapped students in their final years of school (ages 17-21). The project focused on employment with formal class teaching secondary to community work experience. A skills curriculum…

This workshop guide is designed for facilitators of programs that assist women in coping with their newly independent status as a result of divorce, widowhood, or other life transitions. The guide reviews the leadership skills needed for organizing a workshop, planning tips, recruitment, resources and other preparations. A format for the workshop…

This guide shares information about setting up and operating Neighborhood Networks centers. (These centers operate in Department of Housing and Urban Development-assisted or -insured housing nationwide to help low-income people boost their basic skills and find good jobs, learn to use computers and the Internet, run businesses, improve their…

This guide to becoming a teacher includes six sections: (1) "A Snapshot of the Profession" (e.g, reasons to teach, the need to improve schools, working conditions for teachers, areas of high teacher demand, and how to find out more); (2) "Preparing to be a Teacher" (e.g., a primer on teacher education programs, three pathways to the classroom,…

This document consists of the first six issues (year 1) of a bilingual newsletter (English and Spanish) that provides information about available programs and services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers in New York State. The goal is to help migrant farmworkers achieve self-sufficiency and obtain permanent employment through job training…

California's 107 community colleges offer more than 300 different career and vocational education programs and enroll approximately 1.5 million students annually. Each college employs experienced career counselors and maintains an extensive battery of career assessment tools and materials. Developed to assist California employers in meeting their…