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Download full textWorkforce Strategy Center, Brooklyn, NY. – 2000
Focus of this guide is a project to identify best practices and programs in preparing foster care youth for career opportunities and economic self-sufficiency. Foster care program context is described as an economy characterized by jobs clustering into two categories (high wage positions with a continuing career pathway and low wage entry-level…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1986
This document contains witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Senate hearing held in Cleveland, Ohio to examine issues dealing with work and retirement policy and how they affect older women. Opening statements are presented from Senator John Glenn and Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar. Witnesses providing testimony include: (1) Harvey…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Career Planning, Displaced Homemakers
Teich, Albert H.; And Others – 1986
This report is based on a study of professional education and career directions in the field of Science, Engineering and Public Policy (SEPP). It used data collected from surveys of 21 SEPP graduate programs, approximately 550 alumni from 16 of these programs, and employees and professionals who entered the field without formal SEPP education.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, College Science, Educational Assessment
Women Employed Inst., Chicago, IL. – 2002
A study examined the factors that influence lower-income women's career decision making and planning. The 24 women interviewed included African American, white, and Hispanic American women ages 20-60 years or older. The women were employed in a variety of industries. All were college graduates, and none earned more than $24,000 annually. Most…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning, Caregivers
Timmons, Joe; Podmostko, Mary; Bremer, Christine; Lavin, Don; Wills, Joan – National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, 2005
To successfully make the transition from school to adult life and the world of work, adolescents and young adults need guidance and encouragement from caring, supportive adults. The best decisions and choices made by transitioning youth are based on sound information including appropriate assessments that focus on the talents, knowledge, skills,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Youth Employment, Career Planning, Testing
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Career-Technical and Adult Education. – 2001
This resource is designed to provide Ohio labor market information for use with advisory committees to stimulate and inform dialogue about the current evaluation and future planning of programs. It provides reports for 23 career fields in 6 career clusters. Each report highlights careers and occupations in the field and answers these questions:…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Occupations
