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Jennifer L. Ormond – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student employability after college graduation is much debated, as new hires are having trouble not only obtaining a job but maintaining one. Research indicates (e.g., Baird & Parayitam, 2019; Bear & Skorton, 2019) that employers across industries want and need access to a workforce comprised of candidates with a shared knowledge of hard…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Higher Education, College Graduates, Employment Potential
Susan Watson; Kara Fulton; Seth Ketron – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Student enrolment in higher education is increasing, as are enrolments in non-traditional pathways, such as degree completion programs, particularly those that are offered online. These changes have shifted the nature of student learning needs and perceptions. Therefore, stakeholders in higher education need a greater understanding of the drivers…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Employer Attitudes, Student Educational Objectives
Brüning, Nora; Mangeol, Patricia – OECD Publishing, 2020
Employers increasingly reach job seekers through online job postings, particularly for jobs requiring a higher education qualification. Job postings available online provide a rich source of real-time and detailed data on the qualifications and skills sought by employers across industries, occupations and locations. Using a sample of over 9…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Labor Needs, Employer Attitudes, College Graduates
Morgan, Bobbette M.; Rodriquez, Alma D.; Jones, Irma; Telez, James; Musanti, Sandra – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
This study contributes to the literature on first year teachers by identifying complexities and struggles of becoming a teacher and the implications of district-university partnerships to strengthen our educator preparation program. The importance of partnerships with stakeholders, memorandum of agreements to share data, observations of first year…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Education Programs
Sarge, Melanie A.; Daggett, Samantha; VanDyke, Matthew S. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2018
This study was designed to collect formative information for the development of theoretically driven water conservation communication efforts targeting the business sector of water users. Members from a West Texas Chamber of Commerce were recruited for participation in an online survey. Questionnaire responses were collected from 176 commercial…
Descriptors: Water, Natural Resources, Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education
Darolia, Rajeev; Koedel, Cory; Martorell, Paco; Wilson, Katie; Perez-Arce, Francisco – RAND Corporation, 2014
This paper reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper. We sent almost 9,000 fictitious resumes…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employers, Job Applicants, Proprietary Schools
Hagelskamp, Carolin; Schleifer, David; DiStasi, Christopher – Public Agenda, 2014
How do students and alumni of for-profit colleges feel about their schools and the value of their education? Do they have distinct expectations, priorities, and needs compared with students who choose to study at not-for-profit institutions? Are prospective students effectively weighing their options before deciding to enroll at for-profit…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Alumni, Proprietary Schools, Employer Attitudes
Callahan, Rebecca M., Ed.; Gándara, Patricia C., Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2014
The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist. Collectively, the authors draw on novel methodological approaches and new data to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Labor Market, Bilingual Education, Educational Benefits
Heiden, Christopher H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Engineering graduates of the twenty-first century must be worldly and understand how to work with professionals from many cultures on projects that cross international boundaries. Increasingly, employers are finding that prospective employees who have studied abroad make better, more rounded candidates than those who have no life experience…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Engineering Education, Employer Attitudes, Personnel Selection
Madrigal-Hopes, Diana L.; Villavicencio, Edna; Foote, Martha M.; Green, Chris – Adult Learning, 2014
This qualitative study examined the impact of a six-step framework for work-specific vocabulary instruction in adult English language learners (ELLs). Guided by research in English as a second language (ESL) methodology and the transactional theory, the researchers sought to unveil how these processes supported the acquisition and application of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English Language Learners, Career Readiness, Adult Education
Cox, Shannon J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Nursing professionals are held to a variety of roles and responsibilities specific to their field. The success of nursing professionals in their specified roles is essential for quality of care and the success of the healthcare workforce. The current study explored the relationships between personality type, emotional intelligence, social…
Descriptors: Nurses, Personality Traits, Empathy, Interpersonal Competence
Mejia, Juan E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
South Texas College (STC), created in 1993 as South Texas Community College (STCC), has developed from a concept by visionary leaders in the region to currently offering more than one hundred degree and certificate options for students from the counties of Hidalgo and Starr, including two bachelor of applied technology (B.A.T.) degrees. These…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Technical Education, Access to Education
Brown, Herman D. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1974
Results of an opinion questionnaire study (pertaining to employment of women vo-ag teachers) of 104 Texas vocational directors revealed a demand, although somewhat limited, for female vocational agriculture teachers in Texas and that preferable assignment would be horticulture or cooperative part-time training. (EA)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Cooperative Programs, Employer Attitudes, Horticulture

Brown, Kenneth W. – Business Education Forum, 1976
Responses from 1,695 (out of 5,213) surveyed Texas employers provided information, presented in rank order, in the following categories for entry-level jobs: sources for obtaining applicants, reasons for rejecting applicants, causes for terminating employees, employment preparation areas in which improvement is needed, and goals for public…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Employer Attitudes, Employment Interviews, Employment Qualifications
Howard Coll. at Big Spring, TX. – 1974
A survey developed by the Occupational Education Division of Howard University to determine employee supply and demand in Howard County, Texas, involved both employees and employers. Employer data were compiled from interviews with 319 out of a possible 409 employers who employed three or more people. Conclusions and recommendations for the…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employees, Employer Attitudes, Labor Needs