Volume 3 presents a descriptive outline of the Wisconsin school-based career placement model. The two major objectives for the model are: (1) to maximize the individual student's competencies for independent career functioning and (2) to maximize the availability of career placement options. For orderly transition, each student must receive the…

This report summarizes the proceedings, conclusions, and recommendations of the New York Vocational Advisory Council for the 1972 fiscal year. Concerned with the role and function of guidance, counseling, placement, and followup programs within the State, the Council authorized three studies: (1) The Arthur D. Little Study of six localities, (2)…

To describe existing placement services of public 2-year colleges in New York, questionnaires were mailed to the chief placement officer of 40 colleges, and on-site visits and interviews were held with placement officers of seven colleges. Returned questionnaires from 36 placement officers plus the interview data revealed that: (1) A total of 35…

The publication presents guidelines to assist secondary schools in developing and implementing a job placement service within an existing guidance program. The need for and the goals of a school placement program are given. Areas to be considered in developing a program according to one of three organizational patterns (decentralized, centralized,…

Volume 2 of the Wisconsin placement project has intensively analyzed survey data. Users and providers of placement services in the select counties of Grant, Winnebago, and Racine were surveyed regarding barriers and facilitations in securing educational/occupational placement. User respondents included 825 current high school seniors from 13…

A study was conducted to identify placement and followup practices common to successful programs, and to strengthen those aspects of pre- and/or inservice training which prepare local counseling and guidance personnel to function more effectively in implementing local placement and followup efforts. A total of 3,218 schools from 26 states were…

The final report of the Wisconsin project, which developed a coordinated and comprehensive placement system for secondary/postsecondary schools, includes a project summary and evaluation. Both providers and receivers of placement services in Grant, Winneabago, and Racine Counties were surveyed regarding barriers and facilitations in securing…

Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This handbook, one of five in subset C, contains description and rationale for two program components presented in more detail in other…

The Job Placement Center project implements those job placement services outlined in the "School-Based Job Placement Model" (ED 077 959), developed in 1972 by the Pennsylvania Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational Education. The project's purpose was to assimilate and extend this model to meet the job placement needs of 46 suburban…

The eighth module of the Rural America staff training series is designed to help individuals gain a better understanding of the placement process. The module begins with a brief introduction to placement in terms of definitions and the current status of placement in the participants' schools, addressing questions of who provides leadership for…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

This booklet presents a model for recruitment, selection, counseling, and placement activities of students in Grade 7 through individuals out of school. This overall model for a counseling and vocational guidance program in a fictitious area vocational-technical school located "somewhere in West Virginia" is divided into four areas: recruitment,…

The study described in the report was made to determine the status of guidance, counseling, placement, and followup services in selected Illinois schools and to make recommendations for improvement. Study tasks included surveying 16 schools (by mail and by on-site visits) and interpreting the collected data. Six community colleges, six high…

Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This handbook, one of five in subset C, describes a variety of school-based activities designed to assist students in accomplishing that…

Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This state of the art review, one of three in the subset of career guidance program support information volumes, summarizes the strengths…