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director of placement
A professional who coordinates activities of job placement service for students and graduates. Responsibilities include:
- Develops placement office procedures.
- Establishes work loads, assigns tasks, and reviews results.
- Conducts in-service training program for placement personnel.
- Interviews applicants to determine qualifications and eligibility for employment.
- Assists individuals to develop employment plans based on appraisals of aptitudes, interests, and personality characteristics, and to plan curriculums accordingly.
- Contacts prospective employers to determine needs and to explain placement service.
- Arranges on-campus interviews between employers and graduating students to facilitate placement of graduates.
- Collects, organizes, and analyzes occupational, educational, and economic information for use in job placement activities.
- Directs maintenance of occupational library.
- Assists in conducting community surveys to gather labor market information, such as prevailing wages, hours, training, and employment possibilities.
- Coordinates program for analyzing campus jobs.
- Part of Speech: noun
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- Industry/Domain: Professional careers
- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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