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Lacka-Badura, Jolanta – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This contribution reports on the use of genre-based instruction in developing students' job search pitch skills in a Business English course taught at the tertiary level. The "job search pitch" (also referred to as "personal branding pitch") is viewed as a subgenre of an "elevator pitch;" it is regarded as an…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Business English, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Piróg, Danuta – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
The objective of this article was to highlight plans versus actual actions of university graduates in Poland aimed at finding employment. The paper also empirically verifies the impact of chosen job-seeking strategies on the success or failure of their transition to employment. The study was Polish-wide and included graduates of geography. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Job Search Methods, Education Work Relationship
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Helm, Francesca, Ed.; Beaven, Ana, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual exchange is gaining popularity in formal and non-formal education, partly as a means to internationalise the curriculum, and also to offer more sustainable and inclusive international and intercultural experiences to young people around the world. This volume brings together 19 case studies (17 in higher education and two in youth work) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Youth Programs
Bartnikowska, Urszula; Cwirynkalo, Katarzyna; Borowska-Beszta, Beata – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2017
The paper examines the category of transition to adulthood of males with intellectual disabilities. It involved secondary analysis of qualitative data from three earlier research projects (Bsdurek 2010, Cwirynkalo 2010, Lysoniek 2014), whose participants were male students of special vocational schools for students with mild intellectual…
Descriptors: Males, Vocational Schools, Mild Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries
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Bordakova, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
Choice of profession is a long process that begins in early childhood and usually lasts for the whole life. That's why it is so important to build a solid vocational guidance school system that will help students to make weighted decisions about their professional future. This system should perform the following functions: engage students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Career Guidance, Career Choice