This guide is intended for use in incorporating competency-based employability skills curricula into vocational and technical education programs. The guide is divided into five sections. The first is a competency listing that includes the competencies identified as necessary for students participating in an employability skills program and a competency listing by program area. A content guide that has been arranged into five units (self-awareness and appraisal, career decision making, preparation for employment, workers' rights and responsibilities, and success in the job market) is provided next. Each unit includes identified competencies, objectives, suggested learning experiences, and resources for use in developing and teaching the course within a suggested grade level (grades 7-8, 9-10, and 11-12). Recommended resources (including textbooks, curriculum guides, microcomputer courseware, and other state curriculum guides) are listed. The appendix consists of activity sheets that can be used by students to reinforce specific objectives addressed in the five units of the content guide. A competency test item bank that has also been included. It contains a competency listing, a table of specifications for course tests, a minimum of three test items, and keys for the test items. (MN)