The Career Development Project formulated this resource lesson guide. The fourth volume is devoted to beginning competence leading to the life-time target of employable skills. After a ten-page introduction to career development, career development rationale and theories, and career clusters, an overview of the lesson guide and rationale and goals for beginning competency are briefly given. The remainder of the guide is a presentation of both published and original resourced divided into developmental levels: early childhood, primary, and intermediate. Included in each lesson are instructional objectives, input, output, and evaluation. (SC)