Describes the role of career guidance in helping students find a vocation in which they can hope to be employed. Enumerates effective job search skills that students can develop. Notes methods of obtaining job experience and the necessity of career planning. Discusses the need for accurate occupational information. (RC)

The new information age society demands a new set of new survival skills. Instead of memorizing facts, students should learn how to gather useful information about work and leisure opportunities. The information-gathering skill can be creatively taught around any specific content area. Two areas that can effectively embody this type of instruction…

This career planning guide is the second in a series on career decision making and the job search. Intended for use by students in career planning courses or by individuals with the help of a counselor, this book focuses on finding and getting the right job once the career planning process is complete. Chapter 1 offers a brief survey of theories…

This guide helps readers identify the skills they have and need to make a successful journey into the world of work--finding a job and choosing a career. It is designed to stimulate thinking about the best career choices, present some career training ideas, and explain the steps involved in finding a job. Section I explains the skills that…

The article describes employability assessment and intervention packages recently developed by the Arkansas Research and Training Center in Vocational Rehabilitation. Counselors can incorporate the employability products into transitional services for disabled students to increase social, vocational, problem-solving, decision-making, on-the-job…

This booklet answers the questions about jobseeking asked most frequently of the New York State Department of Labor. Topics include the following: how to start a job search; WORK Station, a computer program for an extensive job search; where the jobs are; job search methods, by frequency of use; apprenticeship; completing an employment…

This self-directed learning center is intended to serve as a resource upon which to develop and support a career education program. The center is organized into educational activities that have been designed to enhance the career education process, including development of self-awareness, decision making, career exploration, and job search skills.…

This text is the second in a series of advanced career education materials which, with an elementary segment, form a career education curriculum for elementary-secondary migrant students. Complementing texts on careers and roles and on work exploration and work experience, the text uses activities, poems, and cartoons to focus on self-awareness…

Reports on a study of the impact of formalized school-based job-referral procedures among 94 students in vocationally oriented Japanese high schools. Finds that the process achieves a meritocratic allocation of jobs and a smooth entry into the workforce for most students. (CFR)

This curriculum guide is intended to assist business and office occupations teachers in preparing clerical and secretarial students to function in offices whose procedures and equipment are changing rapidly in the face of modern technology. Although the curriculum has been developed primarily for students enrolled in secondary-level vocational…

This text is the second in a series of advanced career education materials which, with an elementary segment, form a career education curriculum for elementary-secondary migrant students. Complementing texts on careers and roles and on work exploration and work experience, the text uses activities, poems, and cartoons to focus on self-awareness…

These six modules are designed to help individuals make the decision whether or not to relocate to find a job or a better job. The modules cover (1) the steps in making a decision and the importance of the information-gathering stage, (2) exploring personal values and needs that are important in making a decision about relocating, (3) the steps in…

This module on sex bias and work, the last in a series of three volumes of sex-fair career guidance activities, deals with choosing occupations and life roles. Addressed in the module are 16 learning activities that cover many of the sex-bias-related obstacles, both attitudinal and occupational, that students will be facing upon entering the world…

This document presents the 23 preemployment skills competencies designed to assist youth in their search for work, their life/work management decisions, and their overall work maturity. They are designed for youth served under the Job Training Partnership Act. In its entirety, the document can be used for information purposes and as a training…

This eight-chapter book presents career development theory through a series of practical steps in which one skill builds on another. The book starts with a broad view of how work meets life needs and fits into the overall patterns of life, and it identifies important questions to consider and skills to develop for effective career planning. This…