Personal interviews and answers to carefully constructed questionnaire by Ohio University students shed new light on considerations for employers seeking to maintain active- and successful- recruiting programs. Copy of checklist included. (Author)

Starting salaries of chemistry personnel in industry, colleges, and universities are discussed. Data are presented from annual salary surveys done by the American Chemical Society's Office of Manpower Studies. (SA)

Discusses a survey designed, it is stated, to determine the prevailing sentiment of the respondents with respect to career opportunities, and focussing on how career opportunities in the central city schools compared to career opportunities outside the central city: the survey population included 94 of the 138 black administrators. (Author/JM)

The findings of Profile/79, the third biennial survey by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) of fact and opinion culled from questionnaires completed and returned by 2,742 members, make up this journal issue. Tabular data presented covers such information as a profile of a typical communicator, comparisons of business…

A survey of 482 employers showed that their hiring quotas for the 1978-79 college graduating class are up. Also discussed are survey results on high-demand occupations, starting salary levels, and employer attitudes toward affirmative action and job qualifications. (SJL)

Reports on the reexamination of the National Science Foundations' data on the study of scientifically trained women in the U.S., published in 1977. Factors that influence success in NSF's retraining programs are analyzed as well as the distribution of jobs in industry for men and women. (SA)

Job roles of preprofessional personnel in Federal libraries in the Washington, D.C. area were studied in March and April of 1973. A literature review showed library technicians to be increasingly important to libraries. Indepth interviews were conducted at 15 libraries concerning staff composition, job descriptions, and educational requirements.…

Students in two predominantly black colleges were surveyed as to their feelings about opportunities in the health professions and about barriers to entering these professions. The data indicate that the lack of academic preparation and career counseling are major reasons for the limited number of blacks in these fields. (LBH)

The article offers a cursory look at how women faculty members in public community colleges perceive their career opportunities, what their advancement possibilities and career aspirations are, and how they see the dual role of managing home and career. (Author/MW)

A study entitled "Languages for the World of Work," sponsored by the state of Wyoming, was performed by Olympus Research Corporation. The four phases of the project--search of the literature, analysis of employment opportunities, a model for proposed curricula, and dissemination of results--are described. (RM)

Student vocational interest and agricultural business surveys were conducted in Berks County, Pennsylvania to gauge career opportunities in off-farm agricultural occupations. The seven categories of businesses surveyed included agriculture supplies, agriculture mechanics, horticulture mechanics, floriculture, landscaping, turf, and garden center…

This is a report of a survey of the career guidance and counseling needs of 401 representative in-transition adults in the United States. None were full-time students, and all were either undergoing or anticipating job or career changes. The survey determined that 36% of the American population between the ages of 16 and 65 is in a career…

The purposes of this exploratory field study were to discover the utility of career-oriented skills and competencies in speech communication as perceived by representatives from employment agencies, to discover current perceptions of the field by representatives from employment agencies, and to discover the bases for these perceptions. The target…

Concludes that writing skills and commercial experience while attending college are rated highly by employers in the broadcast industry. (RB)

This paper summarizes a survey conducted to determine the need for dual-trained personnel in foreign languages and technical/professional skills. The project also produced a large annotated bibliography and a model curriculum for integrating language and occupational training. The survey included an analysis of government agencies to determine the…