The PACE Employment Program brings together potential employers and employees in the Cook County Jail (Chicago). Inmate-students and employers participate in a variety of exercises related to the development and strengthening of personal and interpersonal skills. (Author/BEF)

Describes a career entry program for adolescents entering the work force. The 12-step procedure is organized in four phases: preliminary; resume; search; and interview. A flowchart of career entry strategy and a career data worksheet are included. (Author/BEF)

A two-stage model is used in career planning classes and workshops to teach students to identify and expand their existing networks and to use networks for information interviews. The first stage describes networking and the second describes information interviewing. It provides a conceptual as well as a pragmatic approach to networking and…

Job finding is a learnable skill. Many programs emphasizing job search methods and interviewing techniques show a high rate of success in equipping the unemployed with the tools to find work quickly and efficiently. (JAC)

Interviewing skills are taught in a business or consumer education course during the four-week unit described here. Topics of the job-hunt unit are value clarification, self-evaluation, aptitude tests, classified ads, resumes, letters of application, role playing, and mock interviews. (CT)

Finding the appropriate judicial clerkship begins with identifying the most qualified, personable, and respected judges, at all levels. Resume and letter writing, recommendations, and interviews are also essential elements to be carefully undertaken. (Journal availability: 1155 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, sc $1.00). (MSE)

The students' task is more complex as different offices at a college or university sometimes provide overlapping career services. Lack of interdepartmental communication and cooperation may interfere in assisting students. The article offers suggestions for interdepartmental cooperation. (Author/CMG)

Many people involved in helping college students prepare for their entrance into the job market frequently give advice based on their own personal experiences or give intuitive responses to questions raised. How valid is such advice? Can the accuracy of such information-giving be increased? The article addressed these questions. (Author)

College relations personnel can no longer afford to ignore the factors which attract college grads to employers. Top-notch college students may be less impressed by traditional recruiting incentives as they research and prescreen employers. The article reviews the current incentives for average and above-average students. (Author/CMG)

A survey at Indiana University revealed that most of its liberal arts graduates found jobs that satisfied them. A well-rounded education combined with career planning and careful job search methods can be an asset in daily life as well as in the marketplace. (JAC)

A recent survey studied the relationship of recruiters to college placement offices and compared results to a similar survey in 1972. Respondents generally held favorable attitudes toward placement offices but suggested better physical facilities and screening of students. (JAC)

Advocates a life-centered curriculum approach, which focuses on 22 skills essential for successful community living and working. Recommends that counselors assume specific responsibilities in this approach and outlines competencies necessary to carry out guidance and counseling activities for persons with handicaps at four phases of career…

Discusses supportive career counseling acts within the framework of three types of support: (1) emotional support; (2) informational support; and (3) appraisal support. Provides specific illustrations of appraisal support interventions. Looks at the role of support in examining life-role salience, and its influence on the identification and…

Investigates the factors that affect procuring job interviews for new Ph.D. economists. Used a data set from the personal surveys of a cohort of first-time job seekers who attended the 1997 American Economic Association (AEA) meeting in New Orleans (Louisiana). States that estimation results suggest a heterogeneity in the interview decision across…

A core concept in dealing with drug addiction is the relationship between fear and drug use. In order to deal with fear, one response is a job skills class as a positive, ego-building experience in which literacy skills are emphasized in the context of self-discovery. (SK)