Career Guidance and job placement are integral elements of the career education concept. Career decision making, a major component, includes learning about self, the world of work, and the interrelationship of these factors. The total professional staff, including a placement coordinator, should be involved in a team approach to serve all…

This document describes the characteristics of a comprehensive approach to program development in guidance, counseling, placement, and follow-up programs. A comprehensive approach to program development employs a systematic planning model and related process that is derived from the scientific method aimed at development, implementation,…

The resurgence of interest in vocational guidance and emergence of various instructional specialists in career development at all levels have pointed to the need for a team of guidance workers and a guidance curriculum. Through this need has emerged a new and broader guidance delivery system. (Author/DS)

Kearsley, Michigans' Practical Experience Program (PEP) serves college bound and non-college bound high school students with internships, career seminars, day on the job, part-time work experience with credit, cooperative training education and placement center service. (MW)

Program activities inherent in and important to career education include such elements as school-industry cooperation, job placement, school-community coordination, and innovative instructional methods. This report contains abstracted descriptions of vocational guidance and career education programs in New Jersey. Presented first are brief…

Creating a Career, a 45-50 hour curricular program for classroom presentation by an instructor has four main areas of focus: (1) self-development, (2) occupational choice, (3) world of work, and (4) job search skills. Components and main features of the program are described. (MW)

The final report of a project to implement a career education guidance and placement program in the school of North Dakota covers the period of time from February 1972 to November 1973. The goals and objectives of the project include improving the guidance and counseling services to all North Dakota high school students; establishing placement…

An annotated guidance bibliography of career education materials for school counselors, the document offers 52 titles in three categories: literature on career guidance, counseling, and placement for the counselor's professional library; guidance material for a student library; and counseling and guidance professional journals. Each listing is…

Describes the basic ideas underlying the Governor Cahill Career Development Vocational Education Pilot Project. (Editor)

Covering the time period of October 1972 to May 1974, the final report documents the efforts of a career education project in the Ogden City School District. In the elementary grades the program stressed the importance of work and workers and introduced some very basic careers. On the junior and senior high school levels, a career guidance and…

Based on a model placement service developed in southern Indiana, a checklist for assessing a comprehensive high school placement service and the utilization of its available resources is presented. (BM)

To aid those advising English majors in college, this article compiles information on technical writing careers from surveys in professional journals, occupational literature, 1980 census data, and Bureau of Labor Statistics publications. (SRT)

The purpose of the Coffee County (Alabama) project was to implement an integrated program of occupational information, guidance, and training extending from the elementary school through the post high school level. Implementation strategy included the following activities: (1) appointment of project personnel, including a full-time placement…

This article describes a new career center paradigm called "Career Networking." It begins with an overview of the Network paradigm, comparing it with the past Placement and Career Planning paradigms. It then develops a model structure of a Network paradigm career office that brings together three clients--students, employers, and…