A project at the University of Cincinnati has formulated the foundation for defining roles, objectives, and functions of career planning and placement. This experience points to a new mix of approaches in developing an effective program. (Author)

This article shows the importance of employment counseling by noting that the counselor helps the individual resolve his vocational problems as well as facilitating suitable placement. (CG)

College Placement Services, Inc. (CPS) was formed in 1964 to help develop and upgrade career counseling and placement programs at traditionally Negro colleges. Since 1965, annual surveys have been made at these colleges which have included data on enrollment, degrees and major fields offered, majors of current graduates, and career fields entered…

California State College at Los Angeles has merged the once separate counseling and placement functions into an integral service center that combines academic and personal counseling with vocational orientation. The author describes the new organization. (Author/BY)

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)

Calls for counselors to assert themselves and take an active role in producing relevant career counseling, planning and placement programs for minority students. (Author)

Discusses some of the problems encountered in getting minority students into vocational programs and then in placing them. Considers the role career placement services should play. (HMV)

The task of helping students identify, locate, and pursue careers is never easy but the problems are compounded when the students are from foreign countries. (Author)

An Australian visitor to the United States, Canada, and Great Britain gives a personal reaction to the sorts of problems facing career services. (Author)

Placement professionals should begin to realize their responsibility in helping students to establish high, but attainable, goals as well as to come to terms with their own values. (Author)

The overall purpose of these papers is to provide a background working paper to serve as a basis for developing a system for evaluating states' programs in Career Guidance, Counseling and Placement. An extensive review of published materials is summarized into three areas: (1) the accomplishments, limitations and trends of the current guidance…

The author begins by overviewing some recent criticisms of the vocational guidance field: (1) too little collaboration with industrial personnel; (2) an emphasis on processing masses of people rather than on the individual; and (3) the need for a systems approach to counseling. His impressions, from the vantage point of industry (i.e. the…

THE INCREASING AMERICAN TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL HAS DECREASED THE LEVEL OF AVAILABLE FARM OCCUPATIONS. BECAUSE OF THIS, RURAL YOUTH ARE URGED TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION, SINCE JOB PLACEMENT WILL PROBABLY BE IN URBAN AREAS. RURAL YOUTH WILL RECEIVE HELP FROM THE UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE (U.S.E.S.), WHICH IS ATTEMPTING TO REDUCE AND PREVENT…

Published in Britain for use by counselors and placement officials, the book offers a systematic attack on occupational placement problems of the prelingually deaf. The system is based on a vocational guidance profile, which is developed from intelligence and achievement test scores. The vocational guidance profile is explained, and occupational…

The purpose of this paper is to present an outline of the occupational education program that is being implemented in the rural community of Apex, North Carolina. Cast in the form of an exemplary program and representing a total approach to the problem of occupational education for elementary and secondary school children, the program will provide…