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Skills & Qualifications: Benefits for People. How Learning and Guidance Professionals Make It Happen
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Carlebach, Ezri; Branco, Eduarda Castel; Deij, Arjen; de Jong, Mirjam; van Uden, Jolien – European Training Foundation, 2019
The world is undergoing a major transformation that requires new skills and qualifications, new ways for people to know about skills and qualifications, and new ways to acquire skills and qualifications. This toolkit is about skills and qualifications, and the benefits they provide for people in a changing environment. It focuses specifically on…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Foreign Countries
Vocational Identity and Career Construction in Education. Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership (AEMAL)
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Fidan, Tuncer, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Over the years, careers have transformed to be flexible and changing rather than stable, life-long commitments to an organization. As such, making work meaningful, controlling the work environment, and taking the opportunity to get required training for the next job are as important as the financial advantages. Educators' careers cannot be…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Change, Career Choice, Professional Identity
The Leading Edge: A Career Development Workshop Series for Young Adults. Participant Workbook.
Canadian Career Development Foundation, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1998
This booklet is designed for participants in "The Leading Edge: A Career Development Workshop Series for Young Adults." It provides the 27 participant handouts for the six workshops in the series. The first in the series, "Setting the Stage: The Changing World of Work," is a workshop to clarify what is occurring in the world of…
Descriptors: Activities, Career Development, Career Planning, Employment Interviews
Building Better Career Futures: Portfolio Builder.
Bell, Donnalee; Hopkins, Sareena – 1998
This Portfolio Builder, designed for participants in the Building Better Career Futures (BBCF) program, helps participants explore, work towards, and realize their life and career goals. It is to be used as a tool to help students reflect on their own ideas about career development and to later market themselves in the world of work. This…
Descriptors: Activities, Career Development, Career Planning, Case Studies
Getting an Academic Job: Strategies for Success. Survival Skills for Scholars, Volume 17.
Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs; Whicker, Marcia Lynn – 1997
This guide offers practical advice on successfully finding an academic job. The first chapter outlines factors that affect the academic job search, including demographic trends, the general state of the economy and prevailing political climate, the need for cultural diversity on academic faculties, conditions within specific academic disciplines,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities
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Semenza, Gregory Colon – Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Many graduate students continue to be regarded as "apprentices" despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. "The Chronicle of Higher Education" reports that the attrition rate for American Ph.D. programs is at an all-time high, between 40% and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Seminars, Time Management