The document discusses occupational information services, which provide students with accurate details about different careers and occupations. This helps students make informed choices about their educational and career paths. Occupational information covers job responsibilities, requirements, salaries, prospects, and more for various jobs and industries. Schools provide this information through guidance officers and services to help students evaluate their opportunities and make a successful transition from education to employment.

3.  For the student community, information on different educational careers and
occupations is noteworthy and worth mentioning. Because to make a wise
choice or proper decision on any matter, the pupils must be well informed
about the pros and cons of that matter.
 Hence for providing detail information relating any matter, a service may be
meant for this. Similarly for giving detail information to pupils on different
occupations a service is meant for it which is called “occupational information
service.”
 In the field of education (in schools) the main work of the guidance officer is
to help his students in securing educational experience and to help him to
evaluate his opportunities and limitations. It is expected that the pupils will be
provided with accurate and usable information before leaving school. Such a
step will be much helpful to bridge the gap between the employment
opportunities and the resources of the personnel.

4. Concept:-
Occupational information is information about the world of
work‘. Occupational information covers pertinent and reliable
information relating to various occupations which includes:-
Job contents,
Training and preparation for the occupation,
Entry in to occupation
Working conditions
Salaries
Emoluments
Employment outlooks &
Prospects etc.

5. Cont......
 Occupational information as defined by Prof. C.E. Shartle is,
“accurate and usable information about jobs and occupations”. It
includes all types of information such as the importance of an
occupation, minimum conditions for entrance, promotion
opportunities, health and hazard compensations etc.

6. (i) Information about various jobs.
(ii) Information about various industries.
(iii) Information about training facilities.
(iv) Information about placement facilities.
(v) Information about Common errors in choosing an occupation.
(vi) Information about various items to be considered in choosing an
occupation.
(vii) Information about sources of information about occupation.
(viii) Information regarding one’s own abilities and interests.

7. 1. Career Planning:
 Due to vastness of educational and occupational opportunities available
today the student needs accurate reliable and useful information.
Occupational information is one of the essential aspects of career planning.
2. Career Development:
 Occupational information is also essential for career development of
students. The individual‘s appropriate skills, attitudes, interests, abilities,
values and self concept depend upon accurate information about specific
jobs.
3. Vocational thinking:
 In the early stage i.e elementary stage, occupational information helps to
widen the vocational thinking .This helps them to explore the vocational
world.
4. Changing Perceptions:
 Occupational information helps to check the pre conceived distorted notion of

8. Cont.......
5. Placement:
 As the student gets reliable and accurate information about the job, through
occupational information it helps in placement. The student gets information
about personality traits required for a particular job, which helps in getting the
job.
 Apart from this, occupational information has important role in preparation of
selection tests for jobs, upgradation of skills of employed manpower and
international comparison of occupational data.

9. 1. Follow up Survey
2. Community Occupational Survey
3. Community Educational Survey
4. Want –Ad Survey
Follow up Survey:-The follow up survey can be conducted to
find out career adjustments of school leavers. These provide
information about educational and employment opportunities
in the community. The occupational facts provided by the
survey help the school students to plan their career
realistically.

10. Community Occupational Survey:
The enumeration and description of jobs in a geographically
defined area. The survey provides an overview of
occupational information about community specific
occupations, man power trends and requirements. If you
want to conduct a community occupational survey, you
have to visit with your colleagues to a near by
office/agency/industry and obtain relevant information on
name and address of the organization existing occupations,
man power requirements i.e. job openings,eligibility,
requirements and salary.

11. Community Educational Survey:
It is conducted to collect detailed information about
educational institutions in a particular geographical area. This
survey covers all types of educational institutions such as
schools, colleges (medical,engineering,vocational) ,distance
education centers etc. Relevant information collected on
courses offered, number of seats, procedure of admission,
fees, hostel, scholarship etc. will give insight. The
prospectus, information bulletin of different institutions can be
studied and analyzed to compare educational facilities.

12. Want –Ad Survey:
This is the simplest and least expensive survey. It is a
periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly) tabulation of the job openings
as advertised in news papers. Here two types of advertisements i.e.
 Help want ads (provides information regarding job openings).
 Situation vacant ads (provide data of supply of workers
for possible job openings.)

13. 1. Imparting occupational information as regular subject.
2. Through career conferences.
3. Occupational information through special subjects.
4. Occupational information through schools clubs
5. Occupational information through home rooms or tutorials.
6. Occupational information through class talks.
7. Occupational talks by specialists in the occupations.
8. Occupational information through work-experience projects.
9. Occupational information through visits to places of work.

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10. Occupational information through dramtisation.
11. Occupational information through films and film strips.
12. Occupational information through displays or exhibitions.
13. Occupational information through Bulletin Board
announcements
14. Occupational information through library.
15. Occupational information through booklets.
16. Occupational information through co-curricular activities.
17. Occupational information through defence corner
18. Occupational information through Radio and Television.

15.  Bureau of Vocational and Educational Counselling 25-B, Park
Street, Calcutta, 16.
 National Council of Educational Research and Training, Mehrauli
Road, New Delhi.
 Ministry of Education, Publication Section, 31, Theatre
 Ministry of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs, Govternment
of India, New Delhi.
 Directorate-General of Employment and Training, 18, Gurdwara
Road, New Delhi.
 Offices of the Employment Exchange in all States.

16. Conclusion:-
The occupational information service is very useful for
students of secondary and higher secondary classes. It is a
service design to assist pupils to explore the world of work
by propagating accurate valid and useful information about
educational and vocational opportunities, their
characteristics demands and requirements. Specifically it
provides information about various vocational courses.