Review of Your job

Abstract

Reviews the book, Your job by Fritz Kaufmann (1948). "Your job, a guide to opportunity and security," is a factual and commonsense treatment of some pertinent facts for the poorly informed individual in the labor market. Although it is optimistically "written for every worker" and "lay and professional adviser," it is too elementary to benefit such a wide audience. However, it can definitely be read with profit by most entry workers, job explorers, and less experienced counselors and personnel workers. The book might also serve as a supplementary text in college counseling and guidance courses. Your job is recommended as a book intended for the inexperienced and poorly informed worker and for the fledgling personnel administrator or counselor. It covers crucial aspects of "your job" in an interesting and readable manner. It presents much information that the counselee could profitably read in preparation for a counseling interview. It is based on excellent source material (largely federal and local government publications). It is a realistic discussion of jobs with frank statements about common employer attitudes and suggestions for handling some of these prejudices. It does not overlook the tremendous importance of individual counseling. As an introductory source book and orientation to the topic of the individual and his job, Kaufmann's book is commendable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)