One of a series on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program models, this monograph provides professionals employed in CETA programs with information on how job recruiting and searches take place to help them improve their job placement and development skills. The content is in four sections. The first section briefly covers the placement function and includes general definitions and a definition of job development. Section two on historical perspectives covers the tools, techniques, and stances of the employment services, the social changes beginning in the 1960's and their impact on the placement role of the employment service, approaches to the employer, and perceptions of the client. The third section is on labor exchange processes and employability development strategies; various methods for recruitment and job search are discussed along with placement strategies for each of seven recruitment job search levels. (Included is a Recruitment Job Search Model which represents the job vacancies broadcast by employers and the place where job seekers must be in order to hear the broadcast.) These search levels consist of the following: the internal job market, contacting the employer directly, personal contacts, the closed systems, and the public intermediary market (private employment agencies, employment service, and want ads). The last section covers agency roles and CETA goals in placement, reexamining the quality of placement, making the placement function more professional, and reexamining the medical model. (EM)