Discusses the growing use of temporary employees by companies, including the reasons that temporary help is popular. Describes the types of people likely to become temporary employees and reports results from a survey of 144 members of the American Society for Personnel Administration regarding their organizations' use of temporary employees. (CH)

Discusses new hardware and software that can help persons with visual impairments perform secretarial duties. (CH)

Henke and Zahn (2001) found that 1992-93 college graduates who entered K-12 teaching were among the most stable of all employed graduates with respect to their occupations three years later. This Research Note reanalyzes "Baccalaureate and Beyond" ["The 1993 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study" ("B&B93")]…

This article provides indices of typing difficulty of typical business writing. These indices are somewhat higher than those found in earlier studies and are much higher than the indices used in textbooks as representing normal difficulty. (SSH)

Topics discussed include a description of word processing, career paths and duties of workers, qualifications, and the present and future status of the word processing specialist and administrative secretary. (TA)

Reports on a study that projects that technology will not cause clerical staff displacement during the next 10 years, but it may produce difficulties for persons looking for new jobs who have no experience with technology. Includes panel recommendations. (CH)

Evidence suggests that office workers' salaries are comparable to those of other occupations that do not require postsecondary education and that clerical workers enjoy a high degree of job security. It is important that students be given information on where jobs are and will be and what income level to expect. (JOW)

Findings indicate that students with previous clerkships gain no significant advantage upon entering the Basic Medicine Clerkship over those without clerkship experience. It was also concluded it was not necessary to modify the objectives of the clerkship for those with previous clerkship experience. (Author/PG)

This publication summarizes results of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 18th annual salary survey of selected professional, administrative, technical, and clerical occupations in private industry as of March 1977. The survey provides nationwide salary averages (not including Alaska and Hawaii) and distributions for 78 work-level categories covering…

Supporting performance objective 51 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on computing cash discounts are included in this packet. (The packet is the fourth in a set of nine on performing computational clerical activities--CE 016 951-959.)…

This guide lists materials to be used in the classroom instruction of word processing technology. A listing of international, national, and regional word processing associations is followed by an annotated enumeration of resources under nine headings: (1) booklets and brochures, (2) books, (3) films, (4) handbooks, (5) machine transcription…

SUGGESTED CURRICULUMS PROVIDE A GUIDE FOR TRAINING QUALIFIED WORKERS IN HANDLING BUSINESS PAPERS, PERFORMING FILING AND RETRIEVAL OPERATIONS, AND PREPARING REPORTS. THE GUIDE SHOULD BE OF ASSISTANCE TO ADMINISTRATORS, SUPERVISORS, AND TEACHERS IN DEVELOPING AND ORGANIZING TRAINING PROGRAMS. THE MATERIALS WERE PREPARED BY THE STAFF OF SOUTH-WESTERN…

The exercise and worksheet packet is part of an eight volume unit for grades 10, 11, and 12, designed for individualized progression in preparing students for entry into the occupation of accounting clerk. The exercise and worksheet packet contains a copy of every worksheet in the learner packet for lessons 12 through 21 so that the instructor can…