This manual is intended for use by secondary school and two-year college personnel engaged in placement work, career education, and guidance. It contains five sections, nineteen short appendixes, and fifteen brochures and reproducible items. Outlined in the first section are secondary and postsecondary job search and placement concepts and a diagramatic model for a school-based comprehensive placement system. The second section, devoted to system implementation, describes placement objectives; placement coordination selection; employment surveys; reaching staff, students, and employers; and a job search/vocational placement implementation schedule. Included in the third section on job search activities are discussions of employer prospects, referral policies, job applications, resumes, interviews, and labor laws. The fourth section on vocational placement contains information on vocational training resources, cooperative work experience programs, educating students for the world of work, developing good work habits and attitudes, placing disadvantaged and handicapped students, occupational information, and vocational testing. Covered in the final section are management concepts, objectives, follow-up studies, and statistical evaluation. Appendixes include sample resumes, job applications, follow-up forms, information on occupational clusters, coordinator logs, and evaluation sheets. (MN)