Working through the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley, the New Careers Development Agency in Oakland is engaged in training unemployed, disadvantaged Negroes for new careers. The three year training programs are designed to help develop entry level employment opportunities, provide maximum prospects for continued employment and advancement, and accomplish these ends by a combination of education, training, counseling, and other supportive services. Trainees are to be prepared for a specific profession. Advancement is to be based solely on mastery of certain necessary verbal and other skills. Careerists also devote 25% of their time to academic classwork in local colleges in pursuit of an Associate of Arts degree so that ultimately they will have at least two years of both work experience and formal education. Thus far, the educational performance of careerists has been encouraging, and on the job performance has, with only minor reservations, been officially judged satisfactory. (An account of funding arrangements, trainee selection, and overall program operation is included.) (ly)