This guide is intended to serve as a reference and procedural tool for use by state and local decision makers in guiding existing and future public education-based job placement efforts in Michigan. The first section gives an overview of job placement in Michigan public education and the rationale for public education-based job placement; it also discusses what public education-based job placement is and whom it served. Discussed in a section on program operation are the following topics: an operational model for public education-based job placement, goals and objectives for coordinated job placement, a description of operational system components, relationships of job to agency resources/personnel, personnel alternatives for delivering job placement, identification of potential agencies for delivery of support services, job placement delivery system models, and staff qualifications and competencies. The third section, which deals with program review and planning strategies, outlines a review and planning procedure and provides a facilitator's activity planning sheet and status study master questionnaire. Appendixes contain a glossary of relevant terms, a chronology of significant events, and excerpts from relevant legislation. (MN)