Offers guidelines for creating resumes, job applications, and cover letters. Includes examples of resumes and cover letters, additional resources, and information on preparing scannable resumes. (JOW)

A vita should present the highlights of one's professional career in the most positive manner possible. However, one should not overlook honesty and accuracy in the preparation of a vita. An outline of information which should be included in an academician's vita is included in this article. (Author/IAH)

A Canadian librarian relates her experience of being expelled from the United States, where she had an eight-month library job, after her four-month B-1 visa expired. Immigration laws and regulations affecting employment of Canadian librarians by U.S. libraries are explained and potential problems for both librarians and employers are described.…

The author recommends that teachers stress customer relations when preparing students for jobs in the construction industry. Students must also be taught that an aggressive business attitude is needed to deal with changing economic conditions. (CT)

Discusses electronic resumes in the job search and identifies their characteristics. Discusses advantages of electronic resumes, the process of using them, and pitfalls in developing them. Offers a sample electronic resume, other recommendations for developing them, and a list of resume database service companies. (SR)

Traditionally, teachers found job openings by "word of mouth" and often were hired with a rather informal set of interview questions. The old standard "tell me about yourself" was a question that started the interview, and it probably ended with "and where do you see yourself in five years?" Research supports the…

The training profession is not an easy one for teachers to enter because of the credibility gap that exists between education and business. Resumes must be written for the business of training and must emphasize those skills and experiences that would be applicable to business rather than to teaching. (Author/IRT)

Provides guidelines for resume writing. Discusses standard and optional categories of information and methods for organizing these categories. Discusses also how to secure and list references. (PRA)

This paper discusses why student writers have so much difficulty in writing job application letters that will produce the desired result. The letter should get the reader interested in the student as a possible employee enough to look over the student's resume and then interview him or her. According to the paper, most technical writing students…

Suggests where to look for summer employment and includes information about types of jobs, summer employers, job search pointers, and legal issues such as wages, hours, and safety. (Author/JOW)

Summarizes the background, development, content, and validation of the Employability Inventory, an instrument designed to assess knowledge of job seeking, job retention, and job success. Discusses usefulness of the inventory in both counseling and education. (ABL)

Delineates a systematic procedure for operationalizing the "behavioral consistency" notion. The steps used in developing selection tests from a content-oriented strategy are illustrated, and the transformation of specific job behaviors into tests related to job content is demonstrated. Test reliability and content validity are presented.…

A provocative job description for assistant professr in experimental social psychology is reproduced and a tongue-in-cheek reply of a "prospective" job applicant is included. (MLW)

Boundaries are limits that define us as separate from others. Although this concept is a familiar one in personal and addictions counseling, it is seldom discussed in career development or career counseling. Yet boundary issues arise constantly in working relationships, in the job-application process, among employees, and especially with…

Discusses strategies for overcoming objections (such as disability, criminal conviction, etc.) in an employment interview. Discusses the nature of employment interviews, when to raise an objection, and strategies such as self-confidence, accepting limitations, focusing on ability, taking responsibility for the past while focusing on the future,…