As part of a series on career and life planning for adults, this four-part booklet discusses job search strategies, resume writing, and job interviews. Part I discourages conventional job-hunting techniques (i.e., visiting employment agencies, researching want ads, going through company personnel offices, and sending resumes and cover letters in…

Counselors have often indicated an apathetic attitude towards involvement in career education activities. Suggested ways in which career guidance can become a useful tool for providing students with the information, skills, and assistance to make career plans are presented for the elementary, middle, and high school levels. At the elementary…

The North Carolina Plan for a life career development model provides a statewide framework on which to build meaningful local programs based on local situations and populations. The three domains of career education (learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living) form the North Carolina Career Education Task Force's rationale,…

The career exploration view is designed to stimulate learning which will provide individualized feedback to students concerning their self-identities. The career conscious individual career education model is an outcome-oriented model designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes individuals need to…

The document contains 47 activities for Grade 8. The contents include the following areas: questionnaires; work vocabularies; employment seeking procedures--employment ads, application forms, resumes, job interviews, and resume preparation advice; a 24-page unit presenting occupational information in relation to career choice and job application…

This paper is concerned with technology as an area of study in education and how children might learn about technology. The curriculum strategy is intended to help the student gain the skills needed to enable him to earn his way in society, to understand his part in the work force, to understand how technology affects his life, to try out…

Nearly 25 million students leave the formal education system of the United States each year without adequate preparation for a career. Career education offers an opportunity to develop and implement more appropriate curriculums that will meet the needs and desires of students and serve the purposes of society. The fundamental concept of career…

Advises business communication teachers to help their students plan careers by integrating "career awareness exercises" and "career planning reports" with regular classroom instruction. (RL)

Suggests that students need both formal and informal preparation for the changes they must face in the transition from secondary schooling to employment through the provision of a comprehensive guidance program that both encourages a closer informal relationship between staff and students and offers a link between school, external guidance…

Describes a school district's introductory inservice program with a three-stage career education program model: awareness, exploration, and preparation. The article is aimed at practitioners--school administrators, curriculum coordinators, guidance counselors, and teachers--wanting to implement an inservice program for the purpose of creating…

This paper traces the steps taken in Alberta to implement the SGIS (Student Guidance Information Service) system, describes the procedures, some of the pitfalls, and discusses the Vocational Information Service for Alberta in relation to other computer-based systems. (Author)

Israeli ninth-grade students (N=217) answered two interest inventories, one based on Holland's classification and one on Roe's classification. By means of a Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-I), a two-dimensional configuration was found. The findings indicate the possibility of incorporating results based on either classification. Some practical…

At Douglass College, juniors and seniors spend a week of vacation in the offices of alumnae and business people who work in career areas interesting to them. This career externship program, its benefits, and the career resource bank are discussed. (JMD)

Combines the summer and fall issues of 1979 for practitioners seeking ideas and information on a broad spectrum of career education programs. Contains abstracts of a variety of career education projects and programs. (JOW)

Vocational Contingency Planning (VCP) offers three alternate strategies for achieving the individual's primary occupational choice, in the event that the choice is currently inaccessible. The alternate strategies allow the individual to work in an area related to the primary goal until opportunities in his chosen field are available. (KRP)