To identify and attract outstanding candidates for key nonacademic positions, college and university presidents should employ executive search firms, primarily to learn of outstanding candidates that might never surface in any other way. (MLW)

Finding good help is difficult enough these days, but trying to hire a qualified sign language interpreter can be especially difficult if you don't know what to look for. This paper provides some ideas that may help in your search. These include such considerations as using an interpreter referral agency versus direct hiring and certification and…

A study undertaken to assess the effectiveness of employment counseling for more than 10,000 applicants indicated that the placement rate for counseled applicants was almost twice that for all applicants although the counseled applicants were, in general, more difficult to place, since many had two or more employment barriers. (SA)

The General Aptitude Test Battery, used by many state employment services as a counseling tool, has been criticized as an unfair screening device. A less restrictive policy of pretest coaching and retesting, combined with action research on the effects of remedial education on aptitudes scores is suggested, rather than a return to subjective…

U.S. Employment Service meshes manpower needs at local level. (Editor)

The author concludes that youth employment specialists are needed to work with youth and employers if young people are to get their full share of the job opportunities and are to achieve maximum utilization of their talents as new entrants into the labor market. (Author)

Volunteer group finds educated women require specialized job information for their unique employment problems. (BH)

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

The data of the study indicated that the younger, less experienced interviewers were more effective in their counseling behavior than were the older, more experienced interviewers. Because of increased levels of rigidity and decreased levels of performance, training supervisors should not neglect the needs of older, more experienced personnel.…

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)

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

Examines the failure of the youth employment service and occupational guidance in the secondary schools of Great Britain. (SB)

Summarizes some of the uses that local Private Industry Councils (PICs) have found for their employment generating resources from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Includes suggestions on how local leaders can involve PICs in the solution of employment and development problems. (SK)

Using selected concepts, format, and techniques from the legal arena, the Judicial Evaluation Model was used to assess the efficacy of linkage arrangements between the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act prime sponsors and education service providers in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (PN)