Increasing attention is being paid to linking education and the market place to prepare youth for a productive role in work. Three areas constitute the ingredients for developing a realistic strategy: (1) Changes in the market place, (2) a delivery system for increased youth employment, and (3) local industry-education councils. Over the next decade significant changes will have impact on the employment situation for youth and will require major adjustments in the educational programs focusing on school-to-work transition. Some of these trends are technological changes, occupational changes from goods to services, new market areas primarily in the South and Southwest, a rise in educational requirements, higher incomes, declining birthrate, and more women and blacks in the work force. A delivery system for youth employment should focus on school-to-work transition, with industry and education collaborating on the following: Statement of goals, staff development programs in career education, school building coordinators in career education, curriculum restructuring to reflect career education concepts, career information/resource centers, job placement services (including needs assessment, job development, student development, placement, and followup), school building-employer partnerships, and task forces of volunteer career consultants. Industry-education councils can link the market place and the delivery system on the local level as representatives of business, education, labor, government, agriculture, and the professions work together on coordination of school industry cooperative efforts. (LMS)