Students benefit from a massive program initiated by the placement office to gain the involvement of alumni and parents in gathering data on job openings nationwide. (Author)

This is a report on the development of Eastern College Personnel Officers' pilot program to place" placement directors with employers to encourage a continuing dialogue between the campus and employment communities. (Author)

A challenge to placement offices to create an information interface to help channel students into what promises to be an area with a rapidly growing number of career opportunities. (Author)

Career Counseling and placement are caught between the press for mass education on one hand, and the spectre of projections for too few positions requiring college trained manpower. (Author)

A placement director indicates problems that need solving in the areas of placement and recruitment, and an industry recruiter treats the nature of professionalism in the two fields. (Author)

Many placement counselors, as revealed in this study, are now moving into the classroom to teach career exploration techniques. (Author)

The author describes impressions gained from visitations to employers at their expense, which helped him understand the employment scene without preconceived notions. As a result, he was better able to serve the college graduates seeking employment. (CJ)

This article discusses a program used to answer career questions which involved the university as a whole, and the alumni working with the career planning and placement office. (Author)

The author elaborates on five areas college placement officers must concern themselves with. Those areas are: (1) the college environment; (2) the student environment; (3) the employer recruitment environment; (4) the government environment; and (5) the value of the college degree. (Author)

Placement can play a pivotal role in supplying administrators with employment data and evaluations to guide long-range educational planning. (Author)

Placement officers must become specialists in the labor market. College placement officers must play a more active role in shaping the development of the nation's human resources and also in the development of their effective utilization. (Author)

Statistics from a study at the University of Illinois put into focus the employment patterns of the women from the class of 1971. (Author)

The author stresses a reordering of existing placement-counseling services to help higher education meet the critical problems of sheer numbers, students with undeveloped concepts of their roles in the working society, and continuing imbalances in the supply of college graduates in areas of real need. (Author)

Efforts were made to stimulate minority involvement in the placement programs at the University of Washington. A job fair, resume book, and internship program generated a high degree of student participation. (Author)

Part I of a two part series on career planning courses, this article describes the one at Indiana University. The course better equips students to make accurate long term decisions, interview with skill and gain self confidence. Syllabus included. (CJ)