PLACEMENT DATA ARE REPORTED FOR 5,066 VOCATIONAL GRADUATES FROM 83 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN CONNECTICUT REPRESENTING PROGRAM FIELDS IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE, DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION, HOME ECONOMICS FOR GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS AND OFFICE EDUCATION, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, AND TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. OF THE 5,066…

The establishment and maintenance of a successful placement program necessitates the establishment of a smooth flowing record-keeping system. The materials comprising the document were prepared as a supplementary handout for a career placement workshop; they are forms and materials used by one community college and are offered as samples. The…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the seventh in a series describing current, successful career education practices. This monograph presents a model for a placement and follow-up program, which involves the entire professional staff of a…

Examined impact of four different follow-up strategies (interviews, telephone, questionnaire, and secondary sources) used in a sequential order over a one-year period with psychiatrically disabled persons (N=142) living in the community. Contact rates tripled when multiple follow-up methods were used in addition to the single method of telephone…

The relationship between academic achievement and occupational success was tested with a sample of bachelor degree-level engineering graduates who had postcollege working experience. The findings suggest that intellectual accomplishment, as reflected by grades, may be a worthy goal to be valued in its own right, but it should not be used to…

A follow-up study of public vocational school graduates revealed that the graduates successfully obtained jobs. Among the factors deemed important by both graduates and employer, communication skills were mentioned as vital. Counseling and preparation in getting along with others were perceived by graduates as inferior. Adjustment to an 8 hour…

Investigates factors related to employment status and stability of rehabilitation clients who had completed vocational training. (Author/MU)

Results supported other researchers' findings that the Engineer scale on the SVIB is no longer an adequate measure of engineers' interests. (Author)

Employment opportunities for persons with doctoral degrees in counselor education and counseling psychology were studied. Over 15 months, 708 positions were identified and analyzed to determine frequency of advertised positions calling for either degree, types of positions, and references to the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related…

Vermont Technical College's (VTC's) graduating class of 1987 has attained a 100% placement rate, marking the third consecutive year that every VTC graduate has found employment, continued his/her education, or entered the military. This report offers follow-up data on the 182 men and women of the class of 1987, broken down by degree major. In…

Discusses the problems involved when employers are asked to rate graduates of vocational programs. Suggests that school systems adopt their own "forced-choice" scale to improve rating procedures. (HMV)

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO REVEAL WHAT HAPPENS TO ENGLISH MAJORS AFTER GRADUATION, TO SEPARATE AND EXPLORE SIGNIFICANT FACTORS IN THEIR CAREER DEVELOPMENT, AND TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SIGNIFICANT TRENDS OR PATTERNS EMERGE. THE SAMPLE POPULATION WAS COMPOSED OF 98 MEN AND 76 WOMEN WHO HAD RECEIVED THE A.B. DEGREE IN ENGLISH BETWEEN…

This report presents data obtained from Project Talent (a longitudinal study designed to achieve a better understanding of the career plans and career development of young adults). In 1960 400,000 students in grades nine through twelve were administered a battery of specially constructed tests and inventories which collected data about their…

Antelope Valley Community College, in one of its efforts to improve educational offerings, commissioned the institutional research officer to develop a technical vocational occupation follow-up system. This report is a description of the results of the survey used to evaluate technical vocational occupation success from 1967 to 1972. (Author/SGM)

Effects of followup services (number of clients still employed at placements and employee retention rate) on 234 disadvantaged manpower program participants were studied in an eastern metropolitan Concentrated Employment Program. An organizational team approach (fellow employee, supervisor, and personnel manager) is proposed as a supportive…