In 1985, Miami-Dade Community College conducted a survey of Florida's community colleges to gather information about the colleges' placement offices. All 27 colleges were contacted by phone, and a series of brief questions were asked of the individual responsible for placement. Survey findings included the following: (1) 74% of the colleges had formal placement offices; (2) Job Services of Florida helped place the students at three of the seven schools that did not have placement offices; (3) 70% of the placement offices reported to the Student Services area; (4) only 25% of the offices had an individual dedicated to job development; (5) of the schools with a high volume of Associate in Science degree graduates, only one did not have a job developer as part of the staff; (6) in 70% of the schools with placement offices, both the placement office and the vocational education department were doing placement activities and made their information available to each other; and (7) among the placement innovations highlighted by the respondents were targeted mass mailings to graduation applicants and employers, resume files matched against job files with computerized updates of both, full-time job developers, the use of alumni networks, and early targeting and help for disadvantaged students. (LAL)