BECAUSEthey represent what educational, industrial, and labor leaders of one large community are doing in an effort to bring order out of the chaos surrounding unemployment and occupational adjustment, Occupationsis pleased to present in some detail the proceedings of the Fifth Metropolitan Conference on Employment and Guidance, held under the auspices of the Section on Employment and Vocational Guidance, Welfare Council of New York City, at the Hotel Pennsylvania on November 19 and 20, 1937. The Conference was attended by about 800 representatives of schools, placement services, employers, and labor unions met to focus their varying points of view upon vocational guidance and occupational problems confronting youth.Coupled with the many timely suggestions for treatment of the problems presented, the proceedings should serve as a guide to leaders of other communities in their efforts to deal with the basic facts of occupational adjustment.Topics discussed included the work of occupational training and retraining in education, placement, and industry; the establishment of apprenticeship standards and practice; and a description of Cincinnati's Four‐Point Program. In addition to the several addresses, eight roundtable discussions were held to discuss the integration of occupational training and employment in various fields of work. Summary abstracts of the addresses, discussions, and round‐tables are included in this report,*prepared under the general supervision of Roy N. Anderson, Associate in Guidance and Personnel, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Chairman of the Council's Committee on Findi