Provides an overview of U.S. Department of Labor efforts for refugees. Explores ways that agencies serving refugees can enter the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act system at the level of service delivery or policymaking. (Author/GC)

Presents a three-part model for counseling in employment settings. Three stages of the job cycle are identified: job preparation, search, and survival. Specific skills represent potential content for individual and group employment counseling. Skills learned have applicability to nonjob aspects of clients' lives, contributing to improvement in…

Job change services can be valuable resources for college graduates over the age of 40 who desire to change employment. Several factors that cause job change are dissatisfaction with present job, forced retirement, and job performance ability. Steps in a job change include the environment, a precipitator, exploration, decision, preparation, and…

Summarizes research to develop a comprehensive and coordinated occupational testing and classification system. An extension of this research led to identification of measurable interest factors which are incorporated in a trait-oriented occupational classification structure contained in USES Guide for Occupational Exploration, a supplement to the…

The NACS Placement Service, which consists of two activities--resume referral and advertisements in a special "positions wanted/available" supplement sheet distributed with the weekly NACS College Stores Confidential Bulletin--is described. The position available listing, position wanted listing, and the resume are discussed. (MLW)

Explores reasons so few handicapped men and women have been helped through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Discusses methods of combating the problem and describes experiments being conducted to improve future employment services to the handicapped. (LAS)

This article explores issues related to the use of supported employment and time-related transitional employment for blind and visually impaired persons. It defines the concepts; describes the characteristics that distinguish these services from others; and discusses the need for these services from ecological, philosophical, fiscal, and learning…

The survey of projects concerned with placing secondary students with mental handicaps into competitive employment studied 24 matched pairs of successfully/unsuccessfully employed students. Results showed that successful programs were characterized by team effort, employer support, employment supervision, and a sensitive match of student and job.…

Problems in the process of selecting new administrators are discussed, including confidentiality, resumes and letters of recommendation, the interview, committee membership, and inside candidates. (MSE)

Examines the actions Oregon is taking to prepare its work force for the twenty-first century. Focuses on the choices about work organization and training that must be confronted and explores potential challenges that must be faced. (JOW)

Explores the impact of employment promotion companies initially intended to bridge job shortages and help German workers find unsubsidized employment. Considers whether they contributed to labor market restructuring or distorted competition with private companies. (SK)

Managers (n=143) completed a simulation exercise involving requests for employment assistance for the spouses of relocating employees. About one-third authorized specific actions. However, managers offered more extensive assistance to the spouses of female employees. (Contains 60 references.) (SK)

In the late 1990s, California legislators funded a statewide, community-based correctional program intended to reduce parolee recidivism. Overseen by the California Department of Corrections, the Preventing Parolee Crime Program (PPCP) provided literacy training, employment services, housing assistance, and substance abuse treatment to tens of…

The authors attempted to identify (a) the coping strategies used by employment service case managers in Queensland, Australia, and (b) the strategies that could be beneficial in reducing the relatively high burnout levels that have been observed in this population. Significant gender differences in coping styles were found, and an association…

This congressional hearing focuses on the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act, which includes features of the prior year's Labor-Management Notification and Consultation Act of 1985 as well as new provisions enacting economic dislocation and worker adjustment task force recommendations. Testimony includes statements and…