Describes school employment" agency to secure school jobs for interested students. They filled out applications, had interviews and secured recommendations. Program attempted to relieve hall congestion and improve tone of school. (Author/CJ)

Fifteen learning disabled secondary students participated in resource room activities that stressed completing employment applications, looking for employment ads in newspapers, and role playing a job interview. Seventy percent of the class found gainful employment without assistance from outside sources. (CL)

Considers factors important in writing effective application letters including appearance, organization, attitude, style, and tone. Effective and noneffective approaches are illustrated. (RC)

Six retarded adults were taught job application and interview skills, including introducing oneself, filling out a standard job application form, answering questions, and asking questions. A combination of instructions, modeling, role playing, and positive and corrective feedback was used across a multiple baseline experimental design. (Author)

The letter most likely to bring forth a positive response is short, error-free, and grammatically correct. The "hard sell" approach is viewed negatively. Attempts at sophistication through the use of metaphor, simile, and quotations are not well received. (Author)

Techniques for teaching letter writing in a composition class are given, using actual employment ads for which letters of application are written. (HTH)

Describes a technical writing course in which four sessions were taught jointly by a writing instructor and a counselor to help students link job-hunting skills with writing skills. Includes the schedule for the four sessions. (TJ)

Describes some little-discussed elements of the job interview, including what people should say, how they should say it, stage fright, tough questions, and interview order. (RL)

A provocative job description for assistant professr in experimental social psychology is reproduced and a tongue-in-cheek reply of a "prospective" job applicant is included. (MLW)

Reports on a field study that examined communication behaviors in job interviews. Recommends a training method for developing the communication skills that job applicants will need. (RL)

Examines methods used to search for entry-level managerial positions and assesses how human resource and personnel directors in Georgia perceive these methods. Findings indicate that few of the directors use electronic technology to fill such positions, but they view positively those applicants who use electronic job searching methods. (RJM)

Reports on a survey of chief human resources officers in the Fortune 500. Focuses on areas such as applicant's appearance; beginning of the interview; conduct of the interview; and closing the interview. Compares results with a similar 1980 survey. (JAD)

The study demonstrated the effectiveness of an instructional package on filling out job application forms with 24 hearing impaired college students. Use of practice forms with many elements common to other forms led to greater generalization than use of practice forms with fewer common elements. (DB)

Applies principles of collaborative teaching and learning to an instructional unit on job applications and resumes. Offers advice on collaboration in the classroom. (SR)