This document contains validated activities and competencies needed by information professionals working in an information service company. The activities and competencies are organized according to the functions which information professionals in such companies perform: project management; reference/analysis of secondary data; research, analysis,…

Written in English and Spanish, the manual lists 11 occupations in which there is a need for workers, the 3 most important skills for doing well in work, and 11 materials found in the career awareness section of the Materials Development and Resource Center. A brief discussion of six steps to obtaining a satisfying job is followed by a listing of…

Sixty-four kindergarten children were pretested for ability to conserve liquid quantity and on an original picture test of vocations, choosing a man, a woman, or both as suitable for particular jobs. It was observed that conservers made significantly more male and total choices than did nonconservers. (Author)

The operations consultant provides manpower and systems scheduling, operating procedures and programing, maintenance directions, and generally acts as the manager's agent to establish cost and control systems. He also works with the consulting engineer during the design phase in the development of operating criteria. (Author)

Using a hypothetical example of how a job placement program was developed in a small, rural community, this booklet is intended as a guide to aid local high school systems in the development of job placement programs. Written in a question/answer format, it focuses on four major objectives of a job placement program: To provide information to…

This guide supplement provides users with up-to-date information on Army enlisted and warrant officer military occupational specialties (MOS's), including recommendations for all MOS's evaluated through October 1977. Following an introductory section on how to use the guide, the remaining content is in two sections. The first contains over 600…

This report contains Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery profiles for seven occupational categories and for selected jobs within each category. Results from four ASVAB aptitudes form the basis of each profile: word knowledge, arithmetic reasoning, space perception, and attention to detail. These are essentially equivalent to the following…

The project had three objectives: (1) to examine from a multi-disciplinary perspective the theoretical and operational meanings of the concept occupation, to develop a conceptualization which could synthesize the major emphases extant in several disciplines and to develop reliable measures of occupational characteristics consistent with the new…

One of six student guidebooks in a series of 11 arts and humanities career exploration guides for grade 7-12 teachers, counselors, and students, this student book on exploration of dance careers presents information on specific occupations in both performance careers and dance education. An introductory section describes the four different dance…

Current employment projections of future manpower needs, produced by individual State employment security agencies, are now available for all States and nearly all Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas having 250,000 inhabitants or more. A chart showing data coverage for each State includes State agency addresses and telephone numbers for…

Speech given at the Occupational Analysts Institute, Michigan State University, July 18, 1967. Also a staff paper at W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Washington, D.C.

To determine whether the work activities of a school superintendent are different when the superintendent is a woman rather than a man, three women superintendents were observed for a week each during the fall of 1979. This study was then compared with a 1977 study of three male superintendents conducted by the author. While the characteristics of…