The bibliography lists current career education holdings available at the library of the Training Research and Development Station, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The bibliography is organized into six sections: general career information, occupational information, job search skills, self-concept, decision-making, and other current bibliographies on…

Describes the role of career guidance in helping students find a vocation in which they can hope to be employed. Enumerates effective job search skills that students can develop. Notes methods of obtaining job experience and the necessity of career planning. Discusses the need for accurate occupational information. (RC)

Presents fourteenth annual review of professional literature on vocational behavior. Looks at several substantive areas of research: vocational choice, career development, decision making, interventions on career development and productivity, job search, industrial/organizational measurement issues, personnel issues, adjustment and development in…

Developed the Needs Assessment for Job Hunters' Guide, and conducted a statewide needs assessment with 1,121 counselors employed in various settings to determine information needed by job hunters. Offers recommendations for counselors in regard to increasing individuals' self-awareness, facilitating access to job information, teaching job-seeking…

A practical handbook to guide the job-hunting process, especially directed to recent college graduates, is presented. Information is provided on: marketing yourself, deciding what to do, the resume, informational interviewing, searching, interviewing, follow-up, considerations for the individual after being hired, the most common job-hunting…

This text is the second in a series of advanced career education materials which, with an elementary segment, form a career education curriculum for elementary-secondary migrant students. Complementing texts on careers and roles and on work exploration and work experience, the text uses activities, poems, and cartoons to focus on self-awareness…

This text is the second in a series of advanced career education materials which, with an elementary segment, form a career education curriculum for elementary-secondary migrant students. Complementing texts on careers and roles and on work exploration and work experience, the text uses activities, poems, and cartoons to focus on self-awareness…

Intended for vocational counselors who are either relatively new to their field or who need to become acquainted with newly developed tools in the field, this student manual is a resource book for a course on methods and materials of vocational counseling. The "Index to Canadian Occupations" and "Your Personal Occupation…

This eight-chapter book presents career development theory through a series of practical steps in which one skill builds on another. The book starts with a broad view of how work meets life needs and fits into the overall patterns of life, and it identifies important questions to consider and skills to develop for effective career planning. This…

As part of a series on career and life planning for adults, this booklet provides a guide to the job market and strategies for choosing a career. Part I suggests the reader list prospective careers and preferred job conditions. Part II helps the reader to categorize careers on the basis of requisite skills, occupational classifications,…

This guide equips students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed to make effective educational and career decisions. Chapter 1 examines attitudes toward work and outlines the career choice process. A career- and life-planning checklist helps students set goals. Chapter 2 explores personal characteristics through…

Consisting of materials and strategies adapted from California's model projects for the training of career technicians, this document explains how to conduct inservice workshops for these paraprofessionals who provide services in career centers established in nearly all California secondary schools. Twelve training modules cover the following…

This instructional manual provides an approach and planned sequence for teaching a course on methods and materials of vocational counseling. (The course is intended for counselors who are relatively new to the field of vocational counseling or who need to become acquainted with newly developed tools in the field.) Covered first are tools and…

This publication lists 76 career materials in the Partnership for Academic and Career Education (PACE) collection that are available for loan to interested teachers, counselors, and others in Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens Counties, South Carolina, schools. The list cites 40 books, 7 videos, 12 periodicals or other professionally developed…

This competency booklet for individualized competency-based instruction is the fifth of five in the Job Search Skills package. (Instructor program and guides are available separately as CE 031 965 and 966, the other booklets as CE 031 967-970.) It contains four operational units related to the job search competency of handling the job offer. (The…