The article discusses the MWEP (Minority Women's Employment Program) funded by the Manpower Administration and designed to place underutilized college-educated minority women in managerial, professional, and technical jobs for which they qualify. The program is the first major attempt to apply outreach techniques to persons seeking white-collar…

Published in a recent issue of Employment Service Review.

Noting that placement of graduating speech communication students is an important measure of the success of career programs, and that faculty and department heads who are presently developing, recommending, or supervising career programs may be interested in useful career attitudes and placement activities, a study was conducted to determine what…

The kinds of vocational guidance available to women from 1910 to 1940 are discussed in this paper. As the number of women college graduates increased in the 1890s and especially in the first decade of the 20th century, concern also grew for what all these trained women would do to earn a living after they graduated and before they married (if they…

This PLACE workbook for clients in employment counseling helps them assess their employability, specifically in the parts of PLACE related to identifying an occupation and fitting the requirements. (A companion Sourcebook is available separately as CE 031 884.) It contains employment-related topics about which the clients are asked questions that…

A SYSTEM, MANPOWER, AND TALENT CLEARINGHOUSE (MATCH), IS PROPOSED AS A SINGLE MECHANISM FOR BRINGING TOGETHER EMPLOYERS AND WOULD-BE EMPLOYEES IN HIGHER EDUCATION. THIS SYSTEM WOULD CONSIST OF A LIST OF VACANCIES AND THEIR DESCRIPTORS, A LIST OF CANDIDATES AND THEIR QUALIFICATIONS, AND A LINKAGE TO UNITE THEM. INITIALLY, THE LINKAGE WOULD CONSIST…

One of the North Dakota Employment Security Bureau's objectives is to provide equality of services in all programs administered by the Bureau to rural area residents throughout the State. This includes services to agriculture, business, government, and workers in meeting their employment and manpower needs. The Supervisor of Rural Manpower…

The guide is a component of the Program Development Section of the "Career Education Handbook for Implementation" whose purpose is establishing and operating a school-based job placement program. It is designed to be of practical assistance to the user in building a placement program that will effectively meet the needs of a particular situation.…

The objective of the project was to develop methods for establishing output and input performance standards for the placement and placement support functions of the United States Employment Service (ES). Volume 2, Findings and Recommendations, reports substantive findings and recommendations developed during the course of the project. A key…

The National Urban Coalition conducted this evaluation to determine the manner in which the provisions of the Emergency Employment Act of 1971 have been carried out, the problems raised by legislative and administrative guidelines, and the difficulties experienced in implementing projects locally. Some major findings were: (1) The Labor Department…

Programs and experiences in University training of manpower personnel for work with lower class minority groups are evaluated. The conclusions focus on problems that lead to limited implementation of new ideas and skills by trainees when they return to their jobs. Primary among these are: (1) limitations due to characteristics of trainees; (2)…

Reporting the events of the meeting of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, the text includes speeches by Chairman Russell, Senator Bob Dole, Secretary of Labor Schultz, Rene Carpenter, Mr. Lustenberger of the W.T. Grant Company, W.F. Schnitzler of the AFL-CIO, Mrs. Koontz of the Department of Labor, Dr. Harlem, President of…

Development of permanent part time employment is seen as a solution to employer needs and the changing life style of women; opportunities exist in banking, retail sales, education, and government agencies. Development of such positions will demand from employers and employment services the assessing of jobs for part time potential, publicizing…

This report on the placement status of engineering and technology graduates in 1973 is presented on the basis of survey data obtained from registrars and placement directors of institutions in the U.S. The numbers of graduates were: 43,429 bachelor's, 16,718 master's, 434 engineer, and 3,587 doctor's degree graduates in engineering; (2) 18,316…

This project studied the effectiveness of an evaluation and prevocational conditioning course for young adult mentally retarded females. A group of 171 women aged 16 to 21, with IQ's in the 50 to 75 range, were housed in a multiple disability center. The eight-week program centered around activities related to domestic and homemaking employment,…