The authors describe the Job Training and Tryout model of school-to-work transition for disabled individuals. The four phases include (1) utilizing previous assessment data and developing individualized employment success plans, (2) employability skills training, (3) job placement, and (4) job change or advancement. (CH)

Reports on China's State Education Commission job placement experiment designed to place college graduates. Provides direct quotations from students to indicate student acceptance of or opposition to the program. Suggests that, while competition ensures success for the best students, sex discrimination and use of family connections are still…

Adults (N=153) with mild mental retardation attending a transitional vocational program were evaluated based upon the multiaxial criteria of the American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual." Fifty-three percent were diagnosed as meeting Axis I criteria, and 17.6 percent met criteria for an Axis II diagnosis, involving…

The funded Access to Employment project was given three years to demonstrate effective bridges between private sector employers and qualified college students and graduates with disabilities. The program offers workshops that address communication and attitudinal issues. Future plans and criteria for evaluating project effectiveness are also…

Forty-nine job developers were interviewed to identify the techniques and approaches used in successful job development for individuals with developmental disabilities. The interviews addressed such topics as the source and number of employer contacts, "opening lines" to employers, mention of disability, negotiations, interviews with job seekers,…

Discusses the role of the English department head in a time of educational crisis. Examines the possibility that graduate study in English is losing its moral base. Considers the role of leadership and oppositional politics in the context of the crisis in graduate study. (HB)

Maintains that past research has identified overeducation and overtraining in terms of the worker's attained schooling from the estimated required schooling of the worker's occupation. Asserts that overeducation is a valid indicator of whether workers possess productive skills that are not utilized. (CFR)

Presents "Library Journal's" (LJ) 44th annual placements and salaries survey of library and information school graduates. Results show that the number of graduates who are finding traditional jobs is declining, but their salaries are increasing. Two related essays discuss one graduate's route to the profession and update the careers of…

Analysis of 1-year follow-up data of 45 young adults with mental retardation, from diverse cultural, ethnic, and economic backgrounds, indicated that 71 percent were employed during the first 9 months posttraining, with approximately 30 percent of the trainees working for 6 months or more. Overall, 75 percent of the trainees' placements were in…

A placement counselor offers his personal guidelines for a vocational placement process to serve blind individuals. Guidelines address the counselor's value system; the functional limitations of visual impairment and adaptive options; and the role of the employing agency in enhancing counselors' motivation for placement. A model placement policy…

This article describes available benefits and work incentives affecting supported employment placement for students with severe disabilities, including payment for necessary supports (state programs and the Department of Labor), protection of benefits (Social Security programs), and incentives to employers (the Targeted Job Tax Credits program and…

Nineteen directors at institutions where cooperative education and career planning/placement functions merged felt that the combination created a much better system for students, including more usage, easier publicity, greater resources, better relations with employers, and more effective use of budgets, staff, and space. (SK)

Analyzes the training and future job placement of young specialists in the Russian labor market who have graduated from institutions of higher learning in the Ul'ianovsk Oblast (Russia) focusing on the minimum hiring requirements, characteristics of graduates that employers prefer to employ, and graduates self-assessments for their future…

Explores recent graduates' judgments of the relatedness of their current employment to their major and whether their education prepared them for work and future prospects. Confirms earlier findings that, compared with other alumni, psychology baccalaureates ranked low on ratings of relatedness of current job to major and preparedness for the job…

A literature review and data from 346 British business studies students identified the importance of relationship marketing approaches in business and highlighted the need for students to gain experience in work placements. Careful management of work placements by universities is required. (SK)