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Learning and Work Institute, 2017
This book is aimed at young adults (aged between 16 and 25) in England who have recently left care, or are in the process of leaving care. Leaving care and moving into adult life is a big change to go through. This book provides useful information, advice, and activities to help care leavers get used to living independently and make decisions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Foster Care, Foreign Countries
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Thompson, Alisun; Bartlett, Lora – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of 30 university-prepared math and science teachers from their pre-service program into their teaching positions to better understand the conditions that attract and retain them in high-need schools. The paper uses the framework of job preview and information-rich hiring to highlight the influence of the…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers
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Mospan, Natalia – Cogent Education, 2016
This paper presents an analysis of labour market outcomes for Ukrainian graduates with higher education in teaching, based on the survey 2015. Besides, the study investigates the issues of the source of tuition fee, transition period and employment sectors in the labour market. The evidence presented in this article indicates that teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, College Graduates, Tuition
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Kucel, Aleksander; Róbert, Péter; Buil, Màrian; Masferrer, Núria – European Journal of Education, 2016
This article studies entrepreneurial education and its impact on job-skills matches for higher education graduates. Those who possess entrepreneurial skills are assumed to be more market aware and creative in their job search. They are also expected to foresee which job offers would and would not, match their skills. Using a large comparative…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Education Work Relationship, Regression (Statistics), Job Skills
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Tayo, Omolara; Thompson, Randall; Thompson, Elizabeth – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
We recruited 20 community members in Ido Local Government Area, Oyo state and Yewa Local Government Area, Ogun state in Nigeria to explore experiences and perceptions of Internet access and computer use. Face-to-face interviews were conducted using open-ended questions to collect qualitative data regarding accessibility of information and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Computer Use
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Meyers, Rebecca – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
The institutionalised categorisation of adults who are over 55 years of age, unemployed and low-skilled as "older" and "disadvantaged" may adversely affect their employment prospects and their self-esteem. This paper reports on the findings of a study that explored the experiences of a small group of such adults; in particular,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Older Workers, Classification
Hamilton, Gayle; Michalopoulos, Charles – MDRC, 2016
There is a longstanding debate about whether helping welfare recipients quickly find work or helping them to first obtain some basic education and training better improves their economic well-being. This brief contributes to the debate by presenting long-term findings from three sites in the seven-site National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education
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Batistic, Saša; Tymon, Alex – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: Drawing on the overarching framework of social capital theory, the purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically examine networking behaviour and employability within the higher education context. Design/methodology/approach: In a sample of 376 full-time business students the authors measured perceived employability, networking…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Employment Potential, Goal Orientation, Access to Information
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Houser, Chris; Lemmons, Kelly – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
Letters of recommendation are commonly used to assess the potential of undergraduate students to be successful undergraduate research assistants/interns or their potential as graduate students. However, there is evidence to suggest that reference letters can include unconscious (or implicit) bias that can affect decisions and limit opportunities…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Assistants, Internship Programs, Student Evaluation
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Nord, Derek – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
Job search, job placement, and on-the-job supports are valuable services provided to many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to obtain work in the community. Investigating those who were unemployed at the time of service entry, this study seeks to extend understanding about the effect of services. Using extant data, a…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Services, Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
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Liu, Dian – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
In the expanded higher education in China, middle-class students are found to have better access to job information than their underprivileged counterparts; they also gain better jobs in the labour market. Researchers have turned to social capital theory to explain this phenomenon, claiming that middle-class students with wider social network and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, College Graduates, Middle Class
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Talero, Gemma Carmen Belmonte – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This case study is about the design of the one-day course "How to find a job as a Spanish teacher in the UK," which is taught at the Instituto Cervantes in London. The course came to exist due to a large number of requests from Spaniards who have come to the UK in recent years--many of them wanting to find a job as a Spanish teacher--and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini – College Composition and Communication, 2016
Drawing on forty-eight interviews with individuals who participated on the academic job market in rhetoric and composition between 2010 and 2015, this essay shows how conceptualizing the academic job search as an intimate endeavor can offer insights for understanding the rhetorical production of affective binds within institutional contexts. This…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Job Search Methods, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
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Deer, LillyBelle K.; Gohn, Kelsey; Kanaya, Tomoe – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: Current college students in the USA are reporting higher levels of anxiety over career planning than previous generations, placing pressure on colleges to provide effective career development opportunities for their students. Research has consistently found that increasing career-related self-efficacy is particularly effective at…
Descriptors: College Students, Career Planning, Career Development, Anxiety
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Kilroy, John – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
ePortfolios are emerging as an alternative to the paper based CV in the employment recruitment process. This paper reports on the findings of research project that was designed to explore the perceptions of adult jobseekers on the use of an ePortfolio as a jobseeking tool. The research project utilised a qualitative exploratory case study to…
Descriptors: Resumes (Personal), Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Job Search Methods
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