This manual contains information designed to help supervisors make new, young workers productive in a short period of time. Intended as a memory aid and checklist of supervisory responsibilities and factors to consider in different situations, the manual contains tips and checklists on supervision and elements of good supervisory practice.…

This publication includes six papers presented at the 1979 meeting of the Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing. Specific presentations made were (1) Entry into Practice: History, Trends, and Issues, by Virginia Barker; (2) The Appropriate Preparation for Licensure Is the Associate Degree, by Virginia Allen; (3) The Appropriate Preparation…

The paper proposes a comprehensive model of career development in early adulthood and addresses some of the theoretical and research issues central to furthering knowledge of how and why young adults enter and adjust to their jobs. The disciplines of vocational and organizational psychology, adjustment and developmental psychology, and industrial…

The paper describes the task matrix procedure for determining the task content for work samples in entry-level occupations within a specified occupational group or industry. The procedure enables the work sample developer to systematically obtain and organize task information from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles in order to identify those…

The report was prepared under a grant made to investigate the possibilities of establishing an organized system of training for the trucking industry. It discusses attempts to disseminate information on training, learned through operation of an experimental and demonstration project in Pico Rivera, California. It discusses problems of compliance…

This report examines the wages and quality of a sample of new hires by large firms (over 500 employees) over a period of seven years. In manual occupations workers with fully qualifying work experience were found to receive entry wages not significantly different from entry wages received by workers with no previous work experience. This placed…

The author presents arguments for and against placing distributive education cooperative students in fast-food outlets, criteria for selecting training stations and students, and a model training plan outline for job and class instruction. (MF)

This study compared the entry-level word processing enabling skills of 419 graduates from postsecondary schools in Alberta and compared the entry-level skills these individuals were taught with the enabling skills they were using within one year of employment. (JOW)

Conducted a survey to identify skills and characteristics of high school graduates perceived most valuable by employers. The general skills of reading, listening, and speaking received the highest ratings, whereas specific job-related skills were rated lowest. Attitudes perceived as highly important included being dependable, staying with a task,…

The Skyline Vocational Training Project in Great Falls, Montana, involves identifying critical work factors in entry-level jobs and blending the most effective practices of special education with those of vocational education in order to assist disabled students seeking realistic and permanent employment. (SK)

The study attempted to determine which skills are needed by entry-level electronics technicians in any of the seven industrial categories. Findings indicate communication skills are considered very important. The researchers fornmulated five recommendations from the results of the study. (CH)

Japan's employment model has been that of "lifetime employment," especially for male college-educated workers. Under such a system, an individual becomes employed by a firm upon graduation and remains in its employ until retirement. (Author/SSH)

A training model designed to involve practicing counselors in a reexamination of their views of entry level workers is described. A brief presentation of the rationale, procedure, and effect of the experience on participants is provided as one response to a neglected area of counselor education--involvement with and training experiences for…

Special Labor Force Report shows that job losers, mostly men, make up less than half of the unemployed; jobless women and teenagers are mostly entrants into the job market. (Editor)