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White, Carol R.; Pollack, Steve – 1980
This guidebook is designed to aid former homemakers to assess their skills and realize the transferability of them to the present day job market. It gives practical tips for all aspects of getting and holding a job, including the following: sources of employment; resumes; employer contact; application forms; employment tests; job interviews;…
Descriptors: Adults, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Qualifications, Employment Services
Whitehead, Vivian; And Others – 1987
A project was conducted to help prison inmates in Will County, Illinois, make an effective transition to employment in the community. During the project, an eight-session, in-jail job search course in career exploration and preemployment skills and a follow-up program for jail residents in transition were developed. A volunteer target population…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Career Exploration, Correctional Education
Scarborough, Jule Dee – 1989
A manufacturing curriculum for secondary vocational programs was designed to bridge the gap between grades 9-10 level courses and the community college-level curriculum of the Illinois Plan for Industrial Education. During the project, a literature review of manufacturing curriculum materials was conducted, a manufacturing conceptual framework was…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Course Content, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Download full textWentling, Tim L.; Barnard, Wynette S. – 1984
A study examined the views of various members of the school and business communities toward what the focus of vocational education programs in Illinois actually is and what it should be. A questionnaire dealing with six factors currently stressed in vocational educational programs and five factors that should possibly be stressed was mailed to the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills, Content Analysis, Counselor Attitudes
Johnsburg Public School District 12, McHenry, IL. – 1978
This curriculum guide offers a complete program for teaching pre-employment job-seeking skills that can be implemented in the secondary or postsecondary school. It contains 15 units on job search methods and job survival skills, divided into 40 lesson plans that teachers can use in the classroom. The material is intended to be integrated into…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Education, Curriculum Guides, Employment Experience
Speaking Freely, 1983
This report contains a condensation and highlights of public hearings held by the Illinois State Advisory Council on Adult, Vocational and Technical Education (SACVE) and the Illinois Employment and Training Council (IETC) on the subject of improving education to prepare youth for employment. During the hearings on this topic, 100 witnesses…
Descriptors: Career Education, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
