The demand for competent translators is at an all-time high. Translators work with written language, and generally work either in-house for a business, translation agency, or other institution, or as free-lancers. Leading employers of translators in the United States are the federal government, domestic and multinational corporations and…

This guide for counselors contains a brief listing of primarily public domain and government-sponsored resources. It covers career, occupational, and labor market information. Only major sources are listed, and much of the information applies to the state of Michigan. Many of the publications included in the guide are available in libraries and…

The position of assistant principal has been virtually ignored and sometimes maligned. Based on perspectives that arise from administrative theory, career development research, and school administration studies, this document describes the special nature of the assistantship, daily work, rewards, and frustrations. Five chapters include: (1) "What…

The purpose of this text is to offer information, including career development strategies, about sports officiating, an occupation that attracts little attention as a source of employment. The book presents fundamental techniques for building successful careers as qualified sports officials and illustrates how sports officiating can be taken from…

Requirements for qualification in the field of process control instrument technology are outlined and discussed for prospective instrument technicians. (Author/EA)

America is experiencing renewed interest in the important role school administrators play in initiating and sustaining school excellence. The perception of the school principal as a passive, reactive manager has yielded to a more accurate recognition of the administrator as a proactive instructional leader. To obtain relevant information…

Now that guidance personnel are getting involved in purchasing materials, the need for discriminating judgment and specific procedures for effective pre-purchase examination becomes all the more crucial. This article is a synthesis of the 1972 revision of the NVGA's Guidelines for the Preparation and Evaluation of Career Information Media.…

A counselor's use of career path analysis should improve the preparation of students for acceptance into entry-level jobs in industry. (Author)

Technicians need to be prepared for photo instrumentation who can maintain the critical tolerances required of both electronic and photographic instruments. The practitioner must also possess a solid background in quality control and densitometry, and a knowledge of optics, photographic chemistry, and the physics of the photographic process.…

The responsibilities of the technical writer, an analysis of the writing process, qualifications and educational requirements are highlighted in the review of this professional occupation. (MW)

Credit is plentiful and so are bad debts. There is a good demand for bill collectors. Where they work, job qualifications, employment outlook, earnings and other aspects of the occupation are topics considered. (MW)

Nineteen nonmetropolitan daily newspapers in Minnesota were surveyed to determine how reporters covered lower level courts. Data were collected in the following categories: demographic characteristics of the reporters, the courts they covered, the type of information they gathered and how, the sources they used, the problems they had with the…

To learn more about the characteristics of daily newspaper managers, a mail survey of 558 top managers at 197 newspapers was conducted. To add to the information about the relatively small number of women newspaper managers, a telephone survey of 74 women managers at 67 newspapers was also undertaken. An analysis of their responses led to the…

As an aid to library administrators, professional staffs, and officials in making comparative evaluations of their own organization's position descriptions and in developing new position descriptions and classification specifications, this document describes 72 library-related positions and divides them into two major groups of classifications:…