Describes the possibilities for international librarianship and explains the hiring process. Discusses hiring fairs, recruitment agencies, the interview process, contracts, and job offers, and lists recommended resources. (LRW)

College students who plan on entering the labor market can expect to see more job opportunities in the spring of 2007, according to information supplied by 864 companies and organizations to this year's Recruiting Trends Report. After two years of double digit growth, the expansion will slow to a modest 4% to 6%. Two opposing factors appear to be…

Part Two of the two-part article describes corporate strategies for affirmative action in order to obtain the most qualified individuals available for professional positions among minority and female candidates. (Author/BP)

This article examines conditions favorable for advancing gender equity and proposes that now is the time to reactivate and energize equity strategies. It discusses six changing conditions that collectively offer an opportunity for advancing gender equity in hiring practices for school principals and superintendents: (1) school-site governance…

Interviews with professional women in higher education point out that major obstacle to full acceptance of women as professionals is male chauvinism--among females too. (Author)

Data from the Decennial Census reveal almost a third of all workers in 1965 transferred to a different occupation by 1970; changing occupations was twice as common as leaving the labor force. (Editor)

Examined the current status of ethnic faculty representation and hiring practices in counselor education programs. Results from chairpersons of 66 counselor education programs indicated that minority faculty members were underrepresented and hired at a slower rate than were nonminority faculty members. Results were mixed in terms of advancement…

The experience of several librarians seeking employment are presented with suggestions for improving library personnel policies. (PF)

Prepared under authority of the Economic Opportunity Act, this paper gives guidelines on developing jobs and new careers for the disadvantaged within Federal, state, and local government merit systems. Typical personnel structures are described, followed by elements of merit evaluation and selection, staffing and classification, characteristics of…

A variety of arguments, both pro and con, are presented concerning the desirability of prescreening job applicants according to grade averages, resumes, or other criteria. (BP)

Business continues to be the most popular major of undergraduates while at the same time, many corporate recruiters are looking for graduates with liberal-arts backgrounds. The increasingly global economy has brought new responsibilities for employees, and graduates need better communication and foreign language skills. (MLW)

Compared job applicants, and company recruiters who interviewed them, about perceived attainability of job expectations. Recruiters perceived higher opportunities for goal attainability than candidates. Both samples viewed higher opportunities for attainment of intrinsic rather than extrinsic outcomes. (JAC)

Subjects rated applicants for one of three gender-typed jobs. Results indicated, in general, masculine applicants (of both sexes) were preferred over androgynous applicants who were preferred over feminine applicants. Male and female students did not differ in their ratings of the applicants. (Author/JAC)

Data from the library job market and mounting anecdotal evidence show that there is cause for alarm. The number of full-time, professional positions in libraries is dwindling, salaries continue to be depressed, more entry-level positions are being liquidated or "deprofessionalized," and qualified job seekers are having trouble securing…