An increased need for better information about labor costs associated with many aspects of telephone company operation led to research by the Bell System on work time estimation methods. Several studies were conducted under different field conditions to test the concurrent validity of work time estimation data in comparison with two different…

Thoughts on some of the parameters of the field worker as a person are collected to guide potential employers of similar fieldworkers. (AG)

Free-lance librarianship is discussed, and retired librarians are urged to start their own information service as a business. Because computer based storage and retrieval systems are not socially, politically, or economically integrated, and one library cannot hold all information, new needs are emerging for information services. For example, a…

Designed for use by vocational educators and their students for the identification and acquisition of job information, this guide is organized into two major sections. Section 1 contains a categorized listing of jobs (for which less than four years of college are required) cross-referenced to resources annotated in section 2. Section 2 cites…

Intended for use with or without counseling help, this occupational exploration guide is organized around 12 interest areas, 66 work groups, and 348 subgroups of occupational titles. The interest areas (an expansion of John Holland's six occupational categories) represent the broad interest requirements of occupations as well as the vocational…

A study examined the validity of using the Minnesota Job Description Questionnaire to measure occupational reinforcer patterns (ORPs). Although ORP profiles (twenty-one adjusted scales) were developed a decade ago to operationalize a key variable in the Theory of Work Adjustment (Lofquist and Davis, 1969), little validity evidence exists. An…

OF 18,000 SECONDARY SCHOOLS CONTACTED, 30 PERCENT RESPONDED TO A QUESTIONNAIRE ON OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION MATERIALS. OCCUPATIONAL LITERATURE WAS OBTAINED BY COUNSELORS 80 PERCENT OF THE TIME. ON THE AVERAGE, $178.00 IS AVAILABLE YEARLY FOR THIS PURCHASE. THE FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR DISPLAYING MATERIALS ARE DESCRIBED. THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER…

A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION LITERATURE AND AN EVALUATION OF ITS USE BY SECONDARY SCHOOL PERSONNEL WERE CONDUCTED. ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS HELD TRUE FOR ALL REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. FURTHER ANALYSIS INDICATED THAT COUNSELORS' RESPONSES WERE NOT AFFECTED BY SUCH SITUATIONAL VARIABLES AS…

The publication brings job titles in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Third Edition, into conformance with equal employment legislation and with recent administration policy statements and instructions which prohibit the use of sex- and/or age-referent language by the public employment service. Job titles that have sex and/or age…

For career education instructors to help in the career choices of their students, it is necessary that a knowledge of occupational information related to different subject areas be acquired. By introducing occupational possibilities into the career education curriculum students can explore these possibilities and make worthwhile decisions. The…