Review of Vocational counseling and placement in the community in relation to labor mobility, tenure

Abstract

Reviews the pamphlet, Vocational counseling and placement in the community in relation to labor mobility, tenure, and other factors by Carroll L. Shartle (1948). This memorandum prepared for the Committee on Labor Market Research of SSRC is concerned with "the effectiveness of vocational counseling and placement in the community and particularly with the role of employment services and their impact on the distribution of labor." Its purpose is to explore the directions in which research might be planned. In general, this reviewer found the specific questions, considered apart from their topics, to be significant and suggestive of important inquiries. In propounding the topics, however, the writers are considerably less articulate. A confusing factor is the failure to differentiate between vocational counseling and placement and to allocate to each its proper role in the entire vocational adjustment process. A second lack of clarity stems from the major emphasis upon the role of the public employment service. The usefulness, in terms of stimulation of research, of this memorandum would have been greatly enhanced if the authors had keyed in the bibliography to the questions so that the prospective researcher would have a more adequate guide to the work that has been done on specific issues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)