The volume describes the PSC (public service careers) program created to secure, within the merit principle, permanent employment for the disadvantaged in public services agencies, stimulating the upgrade of current employees, and thereby meeting public sector needs. PSC aims to attack institutional and individual barriers to promote the most…

Intended for use by individuals responsible for establishing and directing youth school/work programs, this manual presents the following ten functions important in any youth school/work program: enrollee entry, enrollee orientation; employer entry; employer orientation; matching and alignment; program monitoring; counseling; supportive services;…

The supplement to the final report of Project SPRUCE (a program to increase the employability of insured workers who experience long-term unemployment and seem likely to exhaust their benefit rights) summarizes in detail the problems encountered in the administering of the project, the operational procedures followed, and the training program…

Prepared for the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Commission, this report provides employment data compiled and analyzed using the EEO-1 reporting system. Major sections of the report are: (1) The Occupational Distribution of Minority Employment, (2) The Occupational Distribution of Minority Groups by Industry, and (3) The Occupational…

This publication reports the activities of an institute for in-service training of professional persons responsible for vocational-technical education in eastern metrololitan areas. Three related problem areas were seen as reasons for the development and focus of this institute. These included: (1) lack of guidance counselor involvement in the…

The result of a conference on the employment of subprofessionals in human services occupations, this booklet considers the dual role of the schools in both preparing and employing subprofessionals to fill skilled manpower shortages. Noting that New Careers programs fail when administrators and professionals do not accept the subprofessional in a…

The school administrator should assure that every child, upon leaving school, is prepared either to take a decent job, to go on to further occupational education, or to go to college. Any feasible national policy for meeting present and future manpower needs must presuppose a major overhaul of our total structure of education. Only one in four…

The growth, prosperity, and viability of the new African nations will depend ultimately on their ability to develop systematically and to utilize effectively their human resources. The major human resource problems are 1) rising unemployment in urban areas, 2) under-employment of the rural masses, 3) shortages of strategic skills, 4) poorly geared…

This study evaluated short-term manpower projection methods for the personal services and medical and other health services industries. An employer benchmark survey was used to estimate actual employment of cosmetologists, barbers, registered nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. Out of seven projection methods which were applied to the data,…

In spite of increasingly effective anti-discrimination laws and a reduction in the educational differential between blacks and whites, the rapid economic progress made by Negroes in the 1940's and early 1950's has not continued. This study finds evidence that labor market adjustments and population changes are major factors. The labor market…

To evaluate the effect of three Houston Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) out-of school programs on work attitudes and job futures of poverty youth as well as to provide recommendations for program improvement, statistical data were gathered from NYC sponsors' reports and from the trainees' personal folders. The accuracy of the data is limited…

The significant theme dominating the Council on Library Technology's Third Annual Workshop was one of defining the problems that beset Library Technical Assistants (LTAs), training programs, directors of programs, administrative staffs of junior and community colleges, and anyone connected with the use of middle level personnel in libraries.…

Volume II of a study of the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) training program for higher education personnel indicates the first of a three-faceted approach to assess current training needs. The approach, a survey, employed two questionnaires: the Presidential Questionnaire, designed to elicit background data and judgments concerning…

Two seminars were held to provide professional staff of the Humanic Designs Corporation, faculty of selected schools of business administration, labor union leaders, and executives of corporations engaged in manpower and training programs an opportunity to exchange information on upgrading theory and practice, thereby contributing to the…

This report covers the objectives, procedures, and findings of four major projects directed by the Experimental Manpower Laboratory for Correction (EMLC): (1) Token Economy (Ecology) Project, (2) Correctional Officer Training Project, (3) Longitudinal Follow-Up Studies, and (4) Information Dissemination and Utilization Project. EMLC grew out of an…