Computerized listings of job openings and a self-service job selection process are among features of the U.S. Employment Service's new Job Information Service program. (Author)

Discusses such school personnel problems as collective bargaining, negotiations, job hunting, teacher supply, evaluation, and strikes. (Author/JF)

To improve accountability in its vocational agriculture program, Fort Frye High School, Beverly, Ohio, developed a student placement folder. It includes the student's picture, autobiography, information sheet, equipment and skills sheet, references, letters of recommendation, and a copy of his high school transcript. The confidentiality of the…

At Northern Illinois University recruiters and students evaluate each other and generate conclusions regarding the interview process. (Author)

The Minnesota Job Requirements Questionnaire (MJRQ) was developed and administered to supervisors of 22 selected jobs who rated the ability requirements of the job they supervised. Comparison of mean ratings and variabilities of ratings by supervisors in a job showed construct validity for the MJRQ approach, as did intercorrelations of MJRQ…

Paper to appear in the Fall 1973 issue of Phi Sigma Iota Newsletter''. (DD)

Ease and speed of subsidized try-out job placements for the handicapped in private industry indicate that this method should be made regularly available to rehabilitation professionals. (AG)

The author stresses a reordering of existing placement-counseling services to help higher education meet the critical problems of sheer numbers, students with undeveloped concepts of their roles in the working society, and continuing imbalances in the supply of college graduates in areas of real need. (Author)

Efforts were made to stimulate minority involvement in the placement programs at the University of Washington. A job fair, resume book, and internship program generated a high degree of student participation. (Author)

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Company (1971) will have important effects on industrial personnel practices. The decision will do much to make qualification the all important factor in hiring and selection, and will tend to make race, religion, nationality, and sex irrelevant factors. (Author)

Personal integrity, honesty and a professional attitude are needed by both recruiters and placement personnel if a better way of reaching, hiring, and motivating our young people is to result. No less important, states the author, is the commitment the students must make to find their own directions. (Author)

The National Business Education Association currently is engaged in a variety of programs designed to improve business education at all levels. (Author)

Discusses the need for improved training, counseling, and job placement to reduce the employment problems which are a major factor in recidivism. This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

Discusses needs of growing student population at two year colleges, and suggests a regional placement office as an economical, effective way to provide placement services to them. (CJ)