Provides an overview of the Job Corps, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps including purpose, individual qualifications for entry, program highlights, and advantages and disadvantages of serving in one of them. (JOW)

Looks at computer engineers and describes their job, employment outlook, earnings, and training and qualifications. Provides a list of resources related to computer engineering careers and the computer industry. (JOW)

Provides descriptions of jobs related to the printing industry. Includes information on salaries, labor market outlook, and education/training needed. Describes careers in commercial printing and graphic communications. (JOW)

The Retired Senior Volunteer Program in New York City uses a matching process designed to place older adults in optimum volunteer assignments. The process uses position descriptions outlining the transferable skills needed, and a screening interview to identify the transferable skills of potential volunteers. (SK)

Looks at similarities and differences between training and organizational development (OD) and suggests strategies for aligning them: developing high-level sponsorship, demonstrating the fit with existing initiatives, creating collaborations, encouraging trainers and OD specialists to work together, and analyze what hinders collaboration. (JOW)

Describes the nature of the work for computer support specialists including working conditions, employment outlook, earnings, qualifications, training, and advancement. Includes sources of additional information. (JOW)

Looks at the occupations of athletes, coaches and instructors, sports officials, and related workers. Describes the nature of the work, working conditions, employment outlook, earnings, and qualifications and training requirements. Includes sources of additional information. (JOW)

Presents a discussion among several distinguished educators and attorneys intended to demystify the office of university general counsel and to explain just what the counsel does and for whom. (EV)

Looks at medical writing as a career. Provides information about types of jobs available such as pharmaceutical manufacturing, textbooks, trader journals, indexing and abstracting, hospital publications, and online editing; salaries; job growth rate; and education needed. Offers job search tips. (JOW)

Medical transcriptionists are experts in the language of medicine. Describes what they do and what their working conditions, earnings, employment prospects, and training requirements are. Includes sources of additional information. (Author)

The United States, Canada, and Mexico developed the North American Industry Classification System, which captures new and emerging industries, uses a unified concept to define industries, and is a consistent and comparable tool for measuring the nations' economies. Despite initial conversion difficulties, the new system will be a more accurate way…

The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…

Business educators understand the value of improving students' written and oral communication skills. However, too often assignments used to develop these important skills are taught in isolation. The purpose of this article is to enhance a student's written and oral skills by integrating all aspects of the job search written documents and…

The 267 Arkansas school superintendents who responded to a questionnaire mailed to them in 1982 provided the data for this study. Statistical information on the superintendents includes the following: age, sex, and community background; professional experience; entry into public education; classroom teaching experience; age of entry into…