This manual is intended for job developers and people working in educational, vocational, and training organizations with responsibilities for job development and placement. It is designed to help them perform their responsibilities more effectively by making them more responsive to market needs and more efficient in executing their…

This guide contains ten exercises designed to aid students in completing job applications. Exercises included are (1) My Personal History, (2) My Educational Record, (3) Printing Neatly Helps, (4) Key Words and Abbreviations, (5) My Health Record, (6) Papers I Will Need, (7) Paid Work Experience, (8) Unpaid Work Experience, (9) My References, and…

This guide contains thirteen units of instruction designed to illustrate how to get a job. Unit titles are (1) Offer Your Best Ability, (2) Follow Your Interests, (3) Put Your Talent to Work, (4) Make Your Classwork Pay, (5) Use Your Past Experience, (6) Check Out Business Needs, (7) Offer to Do Odd Jobs, (8) Offer a Special Service, (9) Believe…

This booklet, which was developed by Ohio State University's community outreach program to meet area residents' needs for custom-tailored writing instruction, is designed for use in a workshop on writing resumes. The booklet begins with an introduction that states the following three basic guidelines for effective resume writing: (1) discovering…

The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…

This workbook is intended to teach disadvantaged, handicapped, or "hard-core" unemployed persons to find their own jobs. Although the book is designed for a self-study approach, it is important that a trainer/instructor/vocational counselor be available for assistance. The eight chapters cover (1) Employer Expectations (appearance,…

How to locate information that can be used in career decision making is the subject of this digest. The first section lists the career/occupational information collections generally found in public libraries, including printed resources, information about associations, information about local sources of job information, information on specific…

This handbook contains a synopsis of the technical data on a variety of tests and inventories used in career assessment. The test abstracts provided include a description of the components of the tests, norms used, coefficients of reliability and validity, and the advantages of uses of the tests. The tests are grouped in three categories: (1)…

This booklet lists and describes materials that can be used for employment counseling in Canada. The booklet is organized in two parts. The first part lists and describes counseling tools. Some of the tools listed include Moving On, the Canadian Occupational Interest Inventory, the General Aptitude Test Battery, Index to Canadian Occupations,…