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This study evaluates the effects of a behaviorally based textbook on the performance of employment interview skills by unemployed adults.

This article provides a description of a seminar designed to teach job‐finding skills to senior agriculture students through the use of a behaviorally based textbook, practice in job‐seeking skills, and corrective performance feedback. Comparisons of student competencies in job‐finding skills showed that posttraining performance levels were higher than pretraining levels, thus the seminar was an effective approach to helping graduates locate and obtain employment.

An important aspect of finding and retaining employment is a person's level of occupational skills. Little information, however, is currently available on the comparative levels of job‐related skills among both unemployed and successfully‐employed adults. This study, using direct‐observation techniques, analyzes the occupational skills of these two groups. The results show that employed adults performed significantly better than unemployed adults on each of 13 job‐related skills assessed. These differences were found for both job‐finding and job‐retention skills. These assessment methods may be useful to employment counselors interested in helping their clients find and retain satisfactory employment.

Discusses the contexts and processes of policymaking, focusing on agenda formation and policy adoption, implementation, and review; and on the legislative and executive processes. Issues are outlined regarding the roles of behavior analysts in creating policy-relevant conceptual analyses, generating research data, and communicating policy-relevant information; and case illustrations are included. A possible role is noted for the Association for Behavior Analysis in enhancing analysis, research, and advocacy on policies relevant to the public interest.