This study, presented at the NASPA convention, Dallas, 1976, reviews a research project of Student Affairs placement to provide a base line for professional hiring patterns. (Author)

This is a report on a survey to determine what functions health personnel in the schools were actually performing, and what functions principals, supervisors, national leaders, and health personnel thought they should be performing. (JD)

A survey conducted by the College Placement Council indicates that employment for chemical professionals has made solid gains in the Spring of 1977, especially in the hiring of new graduates by industry, schools, and government. The largest hiring increases occurred in the aerospace, electronics, petroleum, and glass/paper packaging categories.…

Presents information obtained from a 1981-82 questionnaire survey of 487 graduate librarians. Highlights include an alternative career profile, differential between salaries of librarians working in libraries and librarians working in nontraditional information jobs, placement routes, and the value of a library degree in career placement. (EJS)

Reports a consensus among surveyed Fortune 500 executives that effective communication skills are more important now than ever before for success in business. Makes curricular recommendations. (MS)

Reports results of two-phase study of size and composition of U.S. online database production organizations. Comparison of 1982 and 1984 data for online database producers to determine number of personnel employed in intellectual production of databases permitted identification of employment trends, which forms focus of discussion. (6 references)…

Surveyed speech communication faculty on demographic information (age, sex, earned degree, publication data, etc.), work activities or job profiles, and career paths. Found a relatively young faculty, limited upward mobility, and a diversity of satisfying careers despite a predominate "publish or perish" emphasis. (PD)

Concludes that members of the Public Relations Society of America want to participate in company decisions and have clear concern for the public interest. (FL)

This survey indicates that professional growth in public relations is related to the practitioner's gender and role (manager vs. technician): Women earn less than men and fill the technician's role with greater frequency than men. (PD)

Discusses approaches used to educate library professionals and paraprofessionals and examines the role of library technicians in a cataloging unit. Results of a survey of 20 library technicians employed in six public, academic, and special libraries in Ontario are reported, noting responsibilities and career satisfaction. Twenty-four references…

Competing hypotheses relating the division of labor between husband and wife to their absolute level of education, their relative level of education, and their relative wage rates are identified, and are combined in a fully specified model. (Author)

A 1975 survey on employment of beginning secondary school teachers in Colorado concludes that (1) opportunities are better in smaller schools, (2) beginning teachers should become involved in cocurricular activities, and (3) ability to teach more than one subject is an advantage. (MB)

This report provides information about occupations that have median earnings (as of 1996) for full-time workers in the Great Lakes states of $30,000 a year or more. Data were gathered from the Current Population Survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data analysis showed that more than half of the good-paying occupation do not require a…

Presents material adapted from the Occupational Outlook Handbook in Brief,'' prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor; the Bureau of Labor Statistics assessment of the 1980 occupational and industrial outlook is based on a projected labor force of 100,700,000 in 1980. (JM)