This article, published in Learning Notes, a house organ of Cleveland State University, describes the Career Guidance Institute--a program designed to provide counselors with firsthand experiences of the business and industrial centers of Greater Cleveland. Program participants, counselors and career education specialists from the Cleveland Public Schools, participated in an eight-week program which included in-plant experience for six weeks. The overall purpose of the Career Guidance Institute was to provide career development specialists with knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for them to assist economically disadvantaged students to make realistic career choices, and to make an easier transition from school to work. The eight-week program was divided into an orientation phase, an on-the-job phase, and a debriefing phase. (Author/HMV)