Describes a British project to develop a sophisticated checklist which would adequately describe teachers' jobs. Included is a discussion of the methodology used to identify teaching tasks and to compile and structure checklist categories. Preliminary and final checklist structures are compared. (AM)

Recommends steps to take when planning a career in business. These include (l) learning more about job requirements, availability, and placement; (2) understanding changes occurring in the job market; and (3) learning how to get along with people and how to work under varying circumstances. (CT)

Details on the nature of the work of administrative support personnel, employment opportunities, qualifications, salaries, and preparation are given. Positions include word processing operator, secretary, executive secretary/administrative assistant, file clerk, clerk typist, and stenographer. (CT)

Students should be trained to obtain employment in any kind of office regardless of the office's size, location, or the duties and tasks involved. Therefore, students should be taught as much as possible about the concept and actualization of word processing. (CT)

Outlines a three-step process to justify the existence of the guidance program, including writing a job description, logging daily duties, and evaluating the program. (Author/WD)

The Conference Category System (CCS) is a systematic and practical approach for supervisors to use in identifying and analyzing their behavior in conferences with teachers. (Author/MLF)

An effective recruiting strategy requires first, detailed profiles of the school, the job, and the ideal candidate; and second, an objective selection process that will produce the best possible match between real candidates and the profile of the ideal candidate. (Author/MLF)

Centers on how to encourage counselor activity in the placement process not only to secure jobs for clients with severe disabilities but also to learn firsthand about the local world of work. Placement training must receive proper emphasis in rehabilitation education programs. (CT)

Presents an approach to career counseling based on humanistic existentialism (HE). The philosophical and psychological background of HE is reviewed with implications for various counseling dimensions including diagnosis, process, outcomes, interview techniques, test interpretation, and occupational information. (RC)

Describes the knowledge, skills, and training required of an art therapist and suggests how career education for art therapy may begin in the elementary/ secondary grades, before the formal university program. This article is part of a theme issue on career education in art. (SJL)

Describes the Interchange program which provides students with occupational and employment opportunity information related to their major area through a cooperative program with local businesses and industries. (JOW)

Presents ERIC documents that provide information about the competencies needed to become a successful reading specialist and about the manner in which those competencies might be gained. (FL)

Employment practice can be shaped to open meaningful employment opportunities to the handicapped and, at the same time, aid business by opening up a previously untapped recruitment resource. (Author/MLF)

Describes the responsibilities of running a one-person journalism department: teaching newswriting and editing courses, acting as both newspaper adviser and academic counselor, and sponsoring activities. (AEA)

The role of the school public relations director is rapidly changing from that of a journalist to a manager of a complex information system. (Author/MLF)