Describes a resume portfolio (from California's Cooperative Office Occupations Program) for students to prepare and update through college and in future job interviews. Portfolio contents include a photograph, cover letter, the resume (statistical or prose style), samples of typing work, and copies of certificates, awards, and commendations. (MF)

Campus activities programmers are offered strategies for coping with overbearing administrators and a hostile work environment, and deciding when to resign, including building a support network within and outside the institution, becoming involved in the local community, drafting a letter of resignation, building personal savings, and choosing…

Examined program components of professional outplacement relative to client satisfaction using a sample (N=68) of former executives seeking jobs. Survey results suggest outplacement content components and process components were better predictors of client satisfaction when compared with contextual components. Self-efficacy may make a key…

Discusses the trend toward online recruitment for librarians and describes a survey of library employees who had posted jobs online. Topics include reasons for online job postings; where positions were advertised, including types of Web sites and print media; electronic communication and emailed resumes; and the future of online recruitment. (LRW)

Low-achieving students were taught to complete a resume and improved their ability to complete an application form to a level comparable to average-achieving peers through a group counseling program. Components of the program and examination of an intervention using program materials are presented. Educational implications and plans for future…

Offers tips for conducting an inventory of job skills that are necessary for the chief school-business official. This self-examination is the first step in the four-step process of preparing, locating, landing, and settling into a new position. Two tables are included. (LMI)

Reports results of surveying directors of university career centers. Respondents supply information about what types of technology they use and how they use the technology for job searching. They also describe what types of training they provide for students and the methods they use to implement training programs. (MKA)

Services that colleges and universities can offer to support alumni job placement and career development are noted, and practical suggestions for creating, administering, and advertising them are outlined. Program ideas include seminars, career-development courses, career placement, counseling and resume services, electronic services to support…

Part I of this two-part article, published in the March 2004 issue, addressed five components of the employment process in order to "make the first cut" when seeking a teaching position. The purpose of this article (Part two) is to provide teacher candidates with the necessary skills to understand and navigate the application process and on up to…

This manual provides training information for implementing supported employment by using a customer-driven approach. Chapter 1, "Supported Employment: A Customer-Driven Approach" (Valerie Brooke and others), describes current best practices, a new customer-driven approach to supported employment, and the role of the employment specialist. Chapter…

The Task Force on Career Planning and Placement in the University of Florida's College of Agriculture (COA) reviewed career planning and placement services available to COA students and made recommendations to define, expand, and improve the COA career planning and placement program. COA has a strong need for a comprehensive career planning and…

This final report describes Careers On-Line, a model demonstration project that is designed, using the Internet, to provide students with disabilities, career service providers, and employers with up-to-date information on career development, employment, and disabilities. Careers On-Line developed databases on job and internship postings, adaptive…

Career services centers are discovering many of the world-wide job and career information resources currently available through the information highway and its primary thoroughfare, the Internet. The problem for students is that many do not have convenient access to on-line computer systems. The Career Services Center at the University of North…

This guide offers practical advice on successfully finding an academic job. The first chapter outlines factors that affect the academic job search, including demographic trends, the general state of the economy and prevailing political climate, the need for cultural diversity on academic faculties, conditions within specific academic disciplines,…

This document consists of the final report and booklet developed by a project that provided individual counseling and life-coping skills workshops to recently unemployed workers lacking basic educational skills. The final report describes how individuals recruited at Philadelphia unemployment offices attended group workshop sessions where they…