U. S. director of career education, Kenneth B. Hoyt, is interviewed on the subject of the relationship of business and industry to career education in the schools. He urges the business-industry community to collaborate with career education implementation in the schools. As part of this collaborative effort, businesses are asked to (1) provide a learning laboratory and opportunities for observation, work experience, and work study to students, and also to teachers, counselors, and administrators; (2) serve as resource persons in the classroom to show, demonstrate, and discuss the career implications of school subject matter; (3) actively cooperate with the placement problem; (4) donate equipment which can make the school more relevant; (5) urge educators to "do" career education; and (6) sit on advisory and policy committees regarding career education in order to move from a concept to a program of action. Questions of why career education has come about, public demand for career education, and the relationship of career education to the evolution of a post-industrial society are discussed. (TA)