BY QUESTIONNAIRE, FACTS WERE OBTAINED REGARDING 12 CATEGORIES OF MERCHANDISING PERFORMED BY 609 SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY PERSONNEL OF 33 DEPARTMENT, LIMITED-PRICE VARIETY, AND GENERAL MERCHANDISING STORES. THIS SAMPLE WAS SELECTED FROM A POPULATION OF 13,643 MERCHANDISING EMPLOYEES, WORKING IN A TOTAL OF 234 FIRMS, IN KING AND PIERCE…

In order to provide more useful and timely occupational information for program development and evaluation, curriculum design, and labor market response to employer needs, the federal Office of Management and Budget has created a standard system of occupational definitions called the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). Criteria for the SOC…

Career information concerning jobs in the electricity-electronics field is presented. Included is an overview of all positions of employment in the field, such as professional engineers, technicians, skilled craft workers, and semi-skilled workers. A description of their work, training requirements, and employment outlook is given. Information is…

CLUSTERS OF KNOWLEDGES WIDELY USEFUL TO BUILDING TRADES WORKERS WERE IDENTIFIED. BY QUESTIONNAIRES AND INTERVIEWS, UP-TO-DATE FACTS WERE OBTAINED REGARDING MAJOR TYPES OF TASKS PERFORMED BY A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE (229) OF BRICK LAYERS, CARPENTERS, CEMENT FINISHERS, ELECTRICIANS, IRON WORKERS, AND HEATING WORKERS. ON THE BASIS OF THIS INFORMATION,…

Technical activity from April 1 through June 30, 1965 was concentrated in behavior analysis and guidance program development. The behavior analysis involved identifying 1,051 jobs as candidates for inclusion in the training program and grouping them into 30 sub-families on the basis of task similarities. Data necessary for decision to include the…

This study was conducted to determine the manpower needs of El Paso, Texas, by surveying and interviewing employers in regard to numbers of employees, education and training level preferred, and related employee information. A second purpose was to identity specific kinds of skills needed by EL Paso business and industry. Information was gathered…

As a part of a project that was to develop a system for defining vocational education curriculum and services necessary to train students for new and emerging manpower needs and job opportuntites, this report describes seven new and emerging occupations. The occupations included represent those which have met the project criteria for "new and…

This document, the fourth volume in a series, details a process for linking vocational education and training (VET) standards and employment requirements that was developed in the United Kingdom and based on functional analysis. The introductory sections describe the other three manuals in the series and the process used to develop this manual.…

The French worker certification system is focusing on efforts to design a scheme for the accreditation of work-based learning. If implemented, the scheme would be directed by a business-government-worker partnership, recognized and accepted by different occupations, and accessible to all employees regardless of the way their qualifications were…