Significance of Occupational Information in the Junior High School Guidance Program

The purpose of this report is to determine what should be done by counselors to facilitate students in making future plans and appropriate goals, to determine if it is known what should be included in an occupational guidance program for junior high schools, and to set up guidelines for developing such a program.The objective will be to search through present literature to determine what is known about junior high school vocational guidance programs in terms of content, objectives, procedures, feasibility, and success. This material will then be analyzed and used in setting up guidelines for counselors' and administrators' use in devising a vocational guidance program, and to facilitate carrying out such a program.