What is the right job for a person? Where is it? How does he find it? The answer to one or more of these questions is essential to anyone looking for a job. This booklet is designed to help you answer these questions in order to help yourself find and hold the right job for you. Job hunting is more difficult for those who do not follow a planned…

The article describes some of the roles open to anthropologists in radio and television. Entry strategies for occupying these roles include taking the first step in approaching the broadcast station, learning about broadcasting, and communicating anthropology to the broadcasters. (Author/NQ)

Based on his experience as an interviewer, the author presents advice to job-seeking teachers on resumes, applications, interviews, and job offers. (SJL)

Provides a class outline for a college composition unit on writing job application letters. (DD)

This article provides information on how education majors should prepare application papers and what they should expect in interviews, based on results from a survey of 271 secondary and elementary school administrators. (Author/MT)

In response to complaints about a suburban Washington school district's handling of job applicant data, Fairfax County (Virginia) designed and programed a computerized applicant-tracking system that can accommodate 14,000 active applicants. This system has boosted the district's recruitment analysis and report generation capability, thereby…

Candidates with excellent potential do not reach the interview stage in a job search for reasons that seldom have to do with "politics." In most cases, failure to be interviewed can be directly traced to the poor materials submitted for the initial screening. Includes specific advice for job searching. (Author/MD)

This workbook is a job search process kit for those over the age of 50. The kit is in honor of all age-50-and-over workers who are determined and dedicated to continuing an active, productive life. Its aim is to help older workers with the what and how of finding a job, and specifically, finding an appropriate mid-life or retirement job. The…

This paper discusses why student writers have so much difficulty in writing job application letters that will produce the desired result. The letter should get the reader interested in the student as a possible employee enough to look over the student's resume and then interview him or her. According to the paper, most technical writing students…

The instructional resource described, a game of learning activities, is designed to provide simulated experiences in how to find, apply, and interview for a job. (Author/AG)

Outlines interviewing and job application procedures for journalism majors wishing to teach at the college level. (RB)

This guide for the law teacher novitiate specifies the responsibilities of a law teacher and gives detailed information on the procedures involved in searching for a law teaching position. (MD)

Describes a college-level job search teaching unit that is a practical method of preparing appropriate resumes, participating in effective job interviews, and getting and keeping the job. The unit's four phases are explained: securing job leads, writing resumes and letters of application, the interview, and the postinterview. (CT)

Narrates the history of an age discrimination suit against the West Hartford (Connecticut) Board of Education, arising from board attempts to limit hirings above certain salary levels. Suggests that school boards carry insurance against legal damages, retain hiring records, and hire administrators willing to be honest with unsuccessful job…