The future potential demand for persons who prepare for consumer affairs positions appears to be good. Applicants should have expertise in an area besides consumer affairs, and employers prefer development of specific consumer competencies and high communication skills. (Author/JOW)

According to new projections, demand for elementary school teachers will increase in the 1980s while that for secondary school teachers will fall. (JOW)

Explores minority achievement and employment in the sciences and engineering, and offers a general outline of a counseling model for increasing the number of minority students in the sciences and engineering. (Author)

Black teachers, more often than Whites, choose service as their career motivation. Study results reveal no racial differences for means of school assignment or subject area taught. Blacks had the same career commitment as Whites but believed they had less opportunity for advancement. (JAC)

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)

Reviews current issues in graduate education as applied to speech communication disciplines. Discusses current enonomic trends as well as the issue of academic rigor versus professionalism. Briefly reviews nine recent book-length publications on graduate instruction. (JMF)

Discusses a report which concludes that the number of science and engineering Ph.D's in the labor force will increase nearly 50 percent by 1987, while the number of "traditional" employment positions will increase only 35 percent, forcing more and more of the degree holders to work outside their fields. (GA)

Surveys the current situation regarding employment of minority group journalists, reports on job and salary trends in journalism, and discusses the future of minorities in the media. (GT)

Although only six percent of the schools offering park and recreation curricula currently have collective bargaining, this percentage is likely to increase in the near future. (JD)

Self Directed Search (SDS) and Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) results occupations and fields of study were organized to show the distributions of personalities within an occupation or field of study. The results show that single fields tolerate several types, but some types occur only infrequently. (Author)

Focuses on the unemployment problem among Vietnam veterans and on the various Federal and private employment programs open to these veterans. Discussion also covers labor force statistics, readjustment to civilian life, changes in the American economy, and the role of the Department of Defense and civilian employers in helping veterans to find…

Evaluation of 78 multicommunity development organizations (MDOs) sharing economic development resources found that MDOs with higher levels of job retention were in areas with low per-capita income and more manufacturing. MDOs with larger staffs and budgets were more successful at job creation and retention. Community size and MDO age also…

To investigate youth unemployment, followed 1,060 young people for five years following the last term of compulsory school. Findings, based on qualitative methods, show that unemployment correlated positively with changes in nervous complaints and depressive symptoms. No profound gender differences were evident. Focuses on self-confidence,…

Trends shaping the workplace are increased skill requirements; more educated, diverse work force; continued corporate restructuring; change in size and composition of training departments; instructional technology advances; new training delivery methods; focus on performance improvement; integrated high-performance work systems; companies becoming…

Growth curve analysis was used on data from the National Longitudinal Survey (n=9,532) and Baltimore (n=3,481) to determine whether disparities in the occupational standing of white men compared to women and minorities grew with advancing age. Results indicate that disparities remained constant over the life course for all but African Americans…