Career and employment counseling has been shown to be a key tool for assisting in processes of socio-professional placement. The objective of this article is to offer an innovative model of intervention that addresses the three vertices of labour market, social fabric and personal context, from which one can understand and globally analyze those…

The Social Vocabulary Index (SVI) and the Inderaction Scale (ID) were developed to measure the character and quality of the interpersonal relationships among the participants in the rehabilitation process. This study sought to (1) determine whether the scales were suitable for further research in the rehabilitation of the rural client, and (2)…

Canada's Jobscan is being developed as an effective automated worker-job matching system which also has applications in the administration of unemployment insurance by assisting clients in their active job search and through the actual identification of valid alternative employment opportunities. (Author)

Describes the development of a work sample battery designed for assessment of vocational aptitudes, interests, and temperament in a disadvantaged client population. VITAS provides information about factors most related to success on the job: interest in the job, temperament for the job, and aptitudes for physical and cognitive components of the…

A client centered placement approach for handicapped people is proposed as an alternative to the traditional selective placement method. The client centered placement is based on client responsibility and counselor direction and requires the counselor to have an unrealistic but optimistic attitude that the client will get a suitable job.…

Results of the current study of 1976 data indicate that although the advantage in favor of counseled applicants being placed was somewhat less in fiscal year 1976 than in fiscal year 1973, counseled applicants' percentage-of-placement rate was still higher than that for all applicants in general. (Author)

Vocational guidance and counseling services available for students in Tennessee public high schools offering office occupations education in 1970-71 need strengthening, with improved job placement services. (MF)

Studied job analysis ratings for 12,009 occupations listed in the Fourth Edition "Dictionary of Occupational Titles" as supporting two bipolar work task dimensions: working with data versus ideas; and working with things versus people. Discusses everyday vocational guidance applications. (RC)

Papers included in these proceedings are concerned with the following topics: (1) "What Do We Really Know About Career Development," (2) "Manpower Policy and Vocational Education;" (3) "How Guidance Services Should Grow in Occupational Education;" (4) "Links;" (5) "The Role for the Vocational Educational Counselors for the Decade Ahead;" and (6)…

Guidelines for a state-mandated employment counseling and placement program are discussed. (Author)

It is proposed that rehabilitation researchers have traditionally examined the process of job placement from a one-sided perspective. In relying solely on a positivistic research perspective, investigators have failed to develop methods of inquiry that could provide an internal view of the placement process by those people who have experienced it.…

Provides information drawn from findings of several experimental projects for disadvantaged youth that concentrate on short-term orientation as a prelude to fast placement in jobs or training. (SB)

President Odell of NECA appointed a committee to write a position paper on the role of the employment counselor. The committee has completed its work and the following position paper has been officially adopted by action of the NECA Board of Trustees. (Author)