Described is a job placement seminar designed to prepare community college graduates in methods of obtaining and maintaining employment. (Author)

Specific procedures and recommendations are presented to facilitate the progress of patients within the hospital and then out into the community. (Author)

The immediate goal was to train 120 women to work in community agencies. The long range goal was an improved body of knowledge regarding utilization of woman Power, particularly knowledge regarding recruiting, selection, and training for careers in youth serving agencies. (Author)

A review by a secondary school counselor of his experience during the summer as a counselor in job placement and counseling with the employment service in Chicago. (BC)

Discusses five functions of a placement and followup service in an area vocational school. (SB)

Watts employment service unit concentrates on finding work for ex-convicts. (Editor)

A federally sponsored program coordinated by the AFL-CIO Appalachian Council to aid the disadvantaged and unemployed in locating jobs. Job development and on-the-job training are both an integral part of the program. (BC)

Developed for use with the physically disabled and outside the mainstream of the mental hygiene movement, present techniques of vocational rehabilitation bias theselection process and may, iatrogenically, reinforce patients' unemployed status. A new model is proposed along with more realistic criteria of success and new professional roles by…

Describes the development of a widespread system of job banks and several trial computerized matching systems as a basis for a future national matching network of job opennings and applicants. (BH)

Here are hard-hitting techniques that may encourage other vocational educators to lay it on the line with unmotivated students. (Editors)

Marketing strategies departments use to help speech communication majors find jobs include (1) internships; (2) programs in organizational communication, public relations, and mass communication; and (3) changing department names from speech communication to communication studies to reflect broader career orientations. (PD)