A description of the beginning, growth, and present status of the highly successful placement service of the Baltimore City Public Schools, an extension of guidance service, was given. A broad spectrum of activities of the placement service will range through earn-learn programs with special emphasis on the "general" student; the co-involvement of…

A project at the University of Cincinnati has formulated the foundation for defining roles, objectives, and functions of career planning and placement. This experience points to a new mix of approaches in developing an effective program. (Author)

Limited staff and budget forced a placement office to evaluate the necessity of its various services, with some surprising results. (Author)

Placement can play a pivotal role in supplying administrators with employment data and evaluations to guide long-range educational planning. (Author)

The author stresses a reordering of existing placement-counseling services to help higher education meet the critical problems of sheer numbers, students with undeveloped concepts of their roles in the working society, and continuing imbalances in the supply of college graduates in areas of real need. (Author)

Efforts were made to stimulate minority involvement in the placement programs at the University of Washington. A job fair, resume book, and internship program generated a high degree of student participation. (Author)

The role of the placement counselor is discussed in relation to psychological education. Placement counselors in the future will find their time divided between their job as counselor and their evolving role as educator. (Author/EK)

The Washington Pre-College (WPC) Testing Program, together with experimental tests administered in Spring 1969, was analyzed to instigate a new guidance system for high school juniors and seniors. Initially, WPC employed predictors established on an already selected intellectual group. New test predictors were needed to match the complexity of the…

Western College Placement Association developed a Professional Exchange Program (PEP) which provides professional growth for members. Placement personnel visit recruiters' offices and recruiters visit colleges to observe organizations. College participants learn about work environments of employers. Employers gain insights beyond career planning…

An educator sees an urgent need for counseling and placement to be considered a major part of the campus educational process and a basic issue of individual self fulfillment. (Author)

This article discusses the suggestions by staff at a placement center of ways in which placement centers might be more beneficial to students. (Author)

Counselors at the UCLA Placement Center organized the Job Club to develop successful job search techniques with group support, direction, and encouragement. Specific goals were: (a) to provide a forum for sharing; (b) to assist in identifying job-related skills; (c) to provide basic information; (d) to establish guidelines; and (e) assist decision…

Balancing the functions of career planning (CP) and placement (PL) can be done. These issues differ from those of other career services directors. The College Placement Council meetings should cover issues such as winning faculty support for CP and evaluating CP and PL services. (Author/BEF)

Describes experiences of two men who had been career planning and placement directors at large universities and who chose to leave their university jobs and move to the private sector. Their experiences in moving to an outplacement consulting firm and a publications company involved in career planning and employment are discussed. (Author/NB)

Offers suggestions for effective public speaking, designed to help career planning and placement directors make presentations to their management or to student groups. Discusses four levels of communication (intellectual, emotional, visual, and physical), the selection of a format, and four basic speaking styles (memorized, written, outline, and…