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        TITLE           Area High Schools Senior Survey Results.
        INSTITUTION     State Fair Community Coll., Sedalia, Mo.
        PUB DATE        [73]
        NOTE            68p.; See other Career Education Project documents;
                        Results of the High School Counselor Survey
                        Questionnaire, CE 003 024; Results of the High School
                        Teacher Survey Questionnaire, CE 003 025 ; Best copy
                        available
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        DESCRIPTORS      *Area Studies; *Career Awareness; Career Education;
                        Career Planning; College Placement; Employment; Job
                        Placement; Job Skills; Program Planning; Regional
                         Cooperation; Secondary Education; Statistical Data;
                         *Student Characteristics; Student Needs; *Surveys;
                         Vocational Counseling; Work Attitudes; *Work
                         Experience
        IDENTIFIERS      Job Search; Missouri
        ABSTRACT         The job development, job placement, and follow-up
        program reported on is an exemplary pebject in vocational education
        that includes 10 cooperating high schools located in a three-county
        area. The program is designed to prepare high school seniors and
        early school leavers to make positive transition from school to
        suitable employment or post-secondary training. The problem studied
        was to determine the students' need for job development and placement
        activities and to demonstrate the need for placement assistance
        within the school setting. Prior activities of students related to
        work experiences, work habits, job-seeking skills, mobility,
        preparation for the world of work, and their career plans were
        required not only for developing future student world-of-work
        programs but also for the implementation of the placement program.
        Data was gathered by use of the Student Career Placement
        Questionnaire, World of Work Survey, and the Career Plans Survey.
        Responses to each of the 77 items from the three survey
        questionnaires are tabulated and grouped respectively; results are
        reported as percentages, and the means of selected items are
        reported. Statistical comparisons are made between schools for
        selected items, and a composite of responses from students in 10
        schools gives an overview. (Author/AJ)
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                                                  PREFACE
                      School guidanco services havo the responsibility of linking the
                 student for whom high school Is terminal, at least In the immediate
                 future, with employment satisfying for him Ind his omploycrs.   This
                 responsibility may bo shared with public or :-rivate employment agencies
                 and others, but school guidance services can be uniquely holpful.   The
                 counselor helps the student to evaluate himsnif realistically, to focus.
                 on job bxpoutations, demands, and satisfactions, to utilize information
                 on solf with assistance from instructors, to develop effective job
                 seeking behavior, to help students making career decisions; and to enter
                 employment.  To counselors, the Important feature Is that the student
                 develops a "model" or "pattern of skills, attitudes and understanding"
                 offective in getting and holding tho right job.  The placement program
                 bmsdens the range of job opportunities offered to the schools grad-
                 uates and communicates a positivo imago of the school to employers and
                 community, and thus to future students through successful and satisfied
                 graduates.
                                                                             INTRODUCTION
                                   It would be erroneous to assume that the preparation for the world.
                           of work and the 01:2colent of graduatos and early school leavers can be
                           performod and carried out by the school counseling staff atone.                                         Thu
                           successful placomont service offered to students Is dependant upon the
                           cooperation of the school administratIvo staff, faculty, loaders of
                           local buslnoss and Industry, public and prlv,to agencies, civic or-
                           ganizations, the community and the students themsolvos.                                    Tho rotation-
                           ship to these various groups is an Integral part of the overall place-
                           ment service process.
                                   Six basic components In offering a relevant placement program
                           include:        (1) study of occupations, (2) study of the individual,
                           (3) collection of occupational information, (4) preparation for tho
                           occupation, (5) placement and ultimate Job satisfaction in the occupa-
                           tion, and (6) potential for individual's upgrading In the occupation.
                                   Schools noed to become more involvod in each of those activities,
                           particularly on the mod of studonts to know moro about the world of
                           work, hew courses In school are en Integral part of the world or work,
                           and the wide variety of occupations open to thorn.
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