The primary objective of this project was to focus on rural labor surplus areas in southeastern Iowa, relocating unemployed residents in industrial jobs on Iowa's Mississippi border, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City. The group was predominantly white and poorly educated. Small rural employment offices communicated job openings and worker qualifications…

This report describes the development of a computerized system to assist Navy personnel managers in carrying out the functions associated with the distribution and assignment of enlisted personnel. This Computer Assisted Distribution and Assignment (CADA) System is aimed at the most efficient interaction between the computer and human manager to…

The use of tests to equate knowledge, experience, and skill with prescribed levels of formal training, and to match people with jobs on the basis of measurable ability to perform them, has received increasing attention by those concerned with manpower shortages in health-related occupations. Basic to the concept of career mobility is the need to…

The State of Pennsylvania, in an effort to determine how education relates to jobs, undertook a study of what happens to its graduates. The author analyzes the findings and draws some conclusions. (Author)

Placement officers must become specialists in the labor market. College placement officers must play a more active role in shaping the development of the nation's human resources and also in the development of their effective utilization. (Author)

This monograph is an outgrowth of a research and demonstration project designed to experiment with technique for increasing the quantity and quality of jobs listed with a state Employment Service Branch Office in order to create the potential for increased placements. The project's basic approach has been to improve the quality and extent of…

Careers of 185 unemployed aerospace professionals from aerospace and defense industries are documented following completion of a month-long orientation to Urban Affairs. Seventy percent of the persons completing the program were professionally employed eight months later; 60 percent of those at work are in the public service. Preparedness of…

Over 400 representatives from industry, labor unions, government, universities, and nonprofit organizations attended the Governor's Conference on Manpower in Springfield, Illinois on March 14, 1969. Recommendations from the 11 workshop sessions held during the conference are presented in the report, and cover the areas of: (1) coordination and…

A private agency, Flanner House of Indianapolis, combined efforts with the Federal government, the Indiana State Employment Service, and private industry to provide upward job mobility for undereducated individuals who are either unemployed or underemployed. The project was designed to show that: (1) Private industry is willing to finance an…

This is the first of a 2-volume final report of a 20-month research and development project conducted by the Michigan State Employment Service agency and a private research firm. The purpose of the project was to design and test innovative methods of increasing the volume and quality of jobs listed with the employment service. Included are: (1) a…

Problems of training, retraining, and counseling older workers are examined in terms of some of their characteristics, such as slower work habits, decreased physical strength, adaptability, and lack of self confidence. Ways to compensate for possible handicaps through training and counseling are suggested. (Author)

Papers included in these proceedings are concerned with the following topics: (1) "What Do We Really Know About Career Development," (2) "Manpower Policy and Vocational Education;" (3) "How Guidance Services Should Grow in Occupational Education;" (4) "Links;" (5) "The Role for the Vocational Educational Counselors for the Decade Ahead;" and (6)…

This paper is concerned with the question of standardization of manpower services. It deals with the extent to which there is too much standardization in the mix of programs, with the cause of standardization, and with what can be done about it. The author proposes: (1) that the solution to over standardization of manpower services lies in…

Virginia information project builds public understanding and acceptance of the Virginia Employment Commission. (Editor)